[The Iguana]

Once this Amendment is ratified, would a State be able to exercise its Constitutional right to define marriage?

My money is that this Court would now argue that states can't do so now.

And it is only a matter of (little) time before the Court starts getting appeals the moment one state (most likely by judicial fiat) recognizes gay marriage.

Gay groups are not trying to get their way through the Democratic process. They're doing it through the ukase of the courts.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"My money is that this Court would now argue that states can't do so now."

The Court can't.

It's in the Constitution.