[Nachoman]

I'll put on my flame suit here, but I hope it does die without going to the floor. I'm not for gay marriage, but if this ban passed, It would open the floodgates for societal issues to be made constitutional amendments. I could see an amendment proposed to guarantee women the right to abortion.

[geopyg]

A pro-choice amendment? Good!

I'm not pro-abortion, but it would beat having a few judges declare the latest morality issue of the day legal or not. Make it an amendment, and toss it back to the states. If 3/4 of the states (either their ELECTED legislatures or a special convention) approve it - its in the Constitution.

If the Constitution can be amended to address congressional pay raises, you would think marriage, abortion and some other issues might at the least be considered.

[sevry]

constitutional amendments

Last resort. And it sends a message - even - if enacted by the states and added to our Constitution. That message is, it was required. It was demanded by Court abuse. If not for the Court, these Amendments would not have been added, by the states. It may seem Constitutional 'clutter' (other such amendments notwithstanding). But that pro-life message, and even such amendment, is as important as slavery, as Reagan saw, and so many others. And a defense of family amendment, also directed exclusively at the Court, again as a last resort, and nothing less, states what is so obvious that any Court should find it in almost every word of the Constitution.