Ya know, I hope Bush goes balls-out for the amendment - not because I think it's a good idea, but because it would serve as a perfect example to the liberal elite of the problem with bestowing so much power on the Federal government.
This problem arises because the feds now regulate our pensions, personal insurance contracts, on and on. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution (does anyone remember the Constitution?) states:
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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I searched high & low and can't find anything about the power of marriage being delegated to the Federal Government. Yet, under the guise of "interstate commerce", the feds control and regulate the minutia of our lives, and each day we (especially the more liberal/socialist among us) insist that we place more of our daily lives into the feds domain.
If the Country resembled anything like what it was originally intended to be, this would strictly be a State issue...If Mass wanted it, cool. If Texas didn't, that's cool too. Since we are free to move among the states (and vote for the laws within our current state), we would be free to live in a place that is best for ourselves.
Instead, most everything is dictated from the federal level. OK if you agree with it, an "injustice" if you don't. We reap what we sow.
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.
– Henry George
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