[Sabertooth]

Or the sun will come up and it'll be exactly the same as the day before, with no change to your life whatsoever.

That will happen after the Constitution is Amended, you know.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Less so because it sets a dangerous precedent that, up until now, we have more or less avoided (with some exceptions, of course).

When you try to back-door this stuff (no pun intended), it totally destroys the purpose of the Constitution, which is designed to protect the rights of the People against government intrusion. The whole purpose is to limit the power of government. Our Supreme Court decides when government has overstepped its bounds. To effectively "overrule" the Supreme Court (or, at least, heading off the Supreme Court at the pass, as this would be doing) with a Constitutional Amendment is to subvert its original purpose--we are taking an government action, which has been declared unconstitutional, and then changing the Constitution to allow it? What does this accomplish except to tell the government that it can pass temporarily popular but unconstitutional legislation just by passing an Amendment.

We get things like income taxes and popular vote for senators because of things like this. Anytime the People cede power to the government, I consider a dangerous step--much more so, say, than the "threat" of Steve and Jim getting a marriage license.