[Responsibility2nd]

All right, we can discuss the idea that an amendment may not pass.

Does that make this a futile move by Cruz? What other options are there? At least Cruz is taking a stand here - however pointless you may deem it to be.

And I applaud him for it. Far better than the usual idiot ideas that government should have no role in marriages anyway.

THAT type of libertardian thinking is what got us queer marriages AND the Supremes overturning bans on them in the first place.

[ScottinVA]

All right, we can discuss the idea that an amendment may not pass. Does that make this a futile move by Cruz? What other options are there? At least Cruz is taking a stand here - however pointless you may deem it to be.

Of course he's taking a noble stand on this and I applaud him. But with the tide of public opinion shifting leftward, it'll die an early death. No legislation Harry Reid disagrees with makes it past his inbox. Where do we think this will go?

[knarf]

A better stand would be our feet planted firmly, a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other.

ALL politicians love to get a rise and an attaboy from their constituents, but attaboys are not necessarily (good) policy

We've been up and down the Constitution and ammendments here in FR for (almost) decades ...