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The constitution is about limiting government and recognition of our natural rights, not about social issues. Marriage is not a right, it's a privilege. If you want a specific definition of marriage then get congress to pass a federal law.

The problem is we have courts that are usurping power. The Mass. Legislature DID pass a specific definition, and the Court just threw it out. There is a decent chance the same thing will happen to the just passed Partial-birth abortion ban. We must find issues that we increase our power so we can reign in the Judicial Branch. Until we reduce the number of activist judges, the power of the legislature is worthless. We have lost our system of checks and balances.

The constitution is about limiting government and recognition of our natural rights, not about social issues. Marriage is not a right, it's a privilege. If you want a specific definition of marriage then get congress to pass a federal law. "

Please, folks, PAY ATTENTION!

The Mass legislature indeed did pass a law. It is correct to get states to pass these laws, because that is where most of these things are regulated. The Liberal Judges incorrectly pretended that their constitution somehow forbids Mass. from insisting that marriage is between men and women only. As you say, constitutions dont define the parameters of these social issues. The judges engaged in judicial tyranny.

Suggesting the solution to the Judicial tyranny of the massachusetts supreme court is, alas, non-helpful. Where does the Congress have the power to overrule the mass supreme court?

IMHO, there is another solution: Throw the bums out in Massachusetts who let this abomination against their own Constitution happen. Starting with Ted Kennedy on down.