[vrwc1]

Since the government will inevitably expand the definition of marriage to the point of destruction

This will only happen if society allows it, and it has been strongly fought whenever government attempts to do so. I predict that the recent law Gray Davis signed in California will be overturned within 3 months.

The lawyers who are making money now on matrimonial law would be the same ones making money on contractual law. Breaking up any legal relationship is messy, and lawyers always seem to get their cut.

Except those lawyers only make money now on divorces. Your way is going to have them making money off of every marriage, and then off of every divorce!

Do you think 70% of the population can be mustered to support the FMA?

Unquestionably! As I said before, it will pass with ease, and destroys all your arguments!

[gridlock]

I think you're whistling past the graveyard if you think there will be a change in the trend expanding the government definition of marriage. Even if the legislative tide could be turned, there are still the courts to deal with. And the Republican majorities in the House and Senate, along with the White House, have done a great job of changing the direction of the Federal Courts, don't you think?

In ten years time, we'll see who is right. But right now the trend looks decidedly negative, given the erosion of state-sponsored marriage over the last fifty years.

Given that the War on Poverty increases poverty, Agricultural Policy results in less efficient agriculture, government schools are a laughingstock and the drug war is a joke, I wonder where you get your confidence that government is going to do the right thing in the matter of marriage?