[Antoninus]

The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior. The attempt to change/outlaw one form of personal behavior was thumpingly reversed in a little more than a decade. Why do you want to change the focus of the Constitution?

The Constitution is our social contract--the agreed upon rules under which our society operates. The only ones changing anything are those groups which use the courts to ram through society-changing novelties, like homosexual marriage, without regard for what society actually wants.

The Marriage Protection Amendment simply sets limits on what we, as a society, are willing to recognize as a legitimate marriage. No homo-marriage. No-polygamous marriage. No incestuous marriage. Period. Ten years ago, the need for such an amendment would have been thought silly. Today, in the aftermath of judicially-mandated fake marriages, the need is obvious and pressing.

When the Federal Marriage Amendment passes--perhaps not this session, but the constant irritation of the homo-normalization lobby ensures that it WILL pass--it will never be overturned.

[steve-b]

The Constitution is our social contract -- the agreed upon rules under which our society operates.

Well, that explains it. Someone who can't tell the difference between "society" and "government" is naturally going to understand the workings of nations about as well as someone who can't tell the difference between "current" and "voltage" is going to understand electrical circuitry.