[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

This crap is radioactive in the 'burbs on the coasts and in the Heartland. It probably doesn't play that well down South.

What polls are you citing! Good lord, this is pure populism to be against Gay marriage. Its something like 80% are opposed it. The numbers have shocked me. I'm all for building up an opponent to prevent them outflanking you, but if you are actually saying that this, along with Dean's other positions are setting him up for anything beyond and McGovern-esk landslide you are kidding yourself.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Look, you're probably right about the vast majority of people being opposed to gay marriage, but that's an entirely different thing than people voting for a Constitutional Amendment.

Hey, I'm not the world's biggest fan of gay marriage, but the fact is that it just plain doesn't affect me, whether it's legal or not, and I'm SURE not going to vote for any Constitutional Amendment. Frankly, I think the Bill of Rights would have been a lot better if they would have stopped after "Congress shall make no law."

So to give the federal government more power for no particular reason? No way.