To clarify, I didn’t say that a marraige Amendment would be the defeat of the left-wing but claimed that an Amendment(s) would be nessecary to defeat the left.
The previous marraige Amendment would of been the defeat of left-wing attempts to redefine marraige though but certainly would not have all out defeated the left in pushing for socialist, fascist style government or in pushing perversion upon our children and all of society.
The Amendment in no way claims that the government has any such right as you claim. It only defiines what it is that the government recognizes.
Your push to make it seem as if we should keep our views behind closed doors and never seek federal legislation or Amendments while the leftists run wild is a poor stradegy.
Not so. My push is to have limited government, even when legislating what we agree is moral behavior. You and someone else may work together to get this marriage amendment passed, "for the good morals of the country," only to find that this someone else worked with the homos to force you to buy an electric car "for the good morals of the country."
My strategy is limited government, plain and simple. That includes education, which is where we are *really* losing this battle. So long as we focus on the symptom (gay marriage) and not the cause (liberal control of the education system) we are going to lose.