[jwalsh07]

What is likely is that the fed and each state's DOMAs will be overturned on the basis of equal protection or privacy (I agree that it's wrong, but that's the most likely scenario.)

And equal protection will spread homosexual "marriage" like wildfire. SCOTUS will never give the okie dokie to treating Mass citizens one way and the rest of us another way as regards SS, Medicare, Medicaid, IRS et al.

Equal protection will make the Mass fait accompli the US fait accompli. Nothing to be done about it but an amendment and from reading this thread, I am doubtful an amendment will pass.

Welcome to the Brave New World.

[puroresu]

Yeah. In a few years we'll have gay "marriage" in all 50 states, mandated by the federal courts. We'll have textbooks depicting smiling gay couples to our kids as role models, mandated by federal officials. We'll have restaurants being dragged into federal court because they didn't make their Valentine's day specials available to gay couples. We'll have the narrow 5-4 Supreme Court ruling upholding the Boy Scouts' rights being overturned. We'll have churches being marginalized, banned from taking part in certain faith based programs, and then hauled into federal court with a threat of their tax exemption being revoked because of their "bigoted" opposition to "gay marriage". We'll have a whole new class of new beneficiaries for various social security type programs.

But hey....we can at least say we didn't threaten states' rights by passing the Federal Marriage Amendment.