But she wishes more of her fellow Congress members would join her effort. Musgrave says while some politicians say they support traditional marriage, they are not willing to do anything to protect it from activist courts.
"Many times politicians who are liberal would like to hide behind the courts' decisions and say, 'Well, that's what the Supreme Court said, so that's the law of the land.' But I think that we have three branches of government, each with its appropriate role," she says.