Senators who wanted the matter left to the states?
Garbage. That was just cover to play in the mushy middle. The homosexuals are winning the day and the family is under attack.
The Amendment would have left the matter to the states. It was a compromise Amendment. Of course the media would never report that. What pro-family people really wanted was language that would settle the issue for good ala Utah being forced to ban polygamy.
"Senators who wanted the matter left to the states?"
It's interesting how the left plays both sides of the "states rights" argument- recall the Texas sodomy law debate? We on the right have been guilty of that as well, but with the gay marriage issue, we know there will be no such thing as an individual state's right to define marriage, given the inevitable invocation of the Full Faith and Credit clause combined with our activist SCOTUS.