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An amendment to the Constitution is one of the more stupid ideas ever put forth. Not that such an amendment stands a rat's ass chance of ever passing congress, much less being ratified.

Tell me, if gay couples marriages are legally recognized, are you heterosexuals going to stop getting married because of it? Are you going to end your current marriages because of it? Does who else gets married really have that much effect on your life? Does the fact your neighbor down the street is or isn't married affect your household?

Also, tell me if your church is legally required to marry everyone who asks? If a heterosexual satanist couple comes to your church and asks to be married, is your church and pastor obligated to perform the ceremony? If not, why would you think you would be so obligated for a gay couple? There has been NOTHING said about obligating any church or religion to perform or recognize anything they don't like or believe, just as they currently do.

If you want to get bent out of shape over exaggerations and non-existent boogeymen, that's your choice. I prefer to live in the real world and find it inappropriate for our elected officials to continue spending valuable time on trivialities when there are so many important issues which actually DOES EFFECT EVERYONE'S LIVES to work on.

The point of a constitutional amendment would be that it would be a rebuke instructing the Supreme Court to interpret Lawrence narrowly. We know from Limon that the Supreme Court presently has no such intention. We know from the size of the majorities that passed the Defense of Marriage Act that gay marriage is one issue on which a constitutional amendment would have a reasonable chance of passing.

So it's not just about gay marriage. (Gay marriage isn't even an issue that I feel particularly strongly about. But I do feel strongly about the Supreme Court instructing states to treat homosexual child molesters leniently.)