[AntiGuv]

I'm with you, but I will be really sorry to see this issue pressed to the top of the political agenda. The threat to the institution of marriage, given the current divorce rates, will not be eliminated by excluding gays.

You're quite right - the threat will be aggravated. With no other recourse, corporations, municipalities, and increasingly states will be compelled to set up domestic partnerships & civil union structures to the point that marriage will be destroyed for all intents & purposes. If the "defenders of marriage" want this Pyrrhic victory, however, who am I to stop them?

[Antoninus]

With no other recourse, corporations, municipalities, and increasingly states will be compelled to set up domestic partnerships & civil union structures to the point that marriage will be destroyed for all intents & purposes.

Don't count on it. I expect the frenzy of the homo-promo/Gaystapo crowd to reach such heights during the fight for the Marriage Amendment that it will demonstrate once and for all that such people are not to be taken politically seriously. With any luck, all their political capital will be spend and their power will be crushed. Fiat voluntas Tua.