Strike The Root: Making Amends With Spouses

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February 24, 2004

Making Amends With Spouses

The impulse to try to preserve traditional marriage as it has been known for centuries is completely understandable, whether or not one agrees with the methods being employed to do so. Also, trying to amend the Constitution to define it demonstrates a modicum of understanding that the Constitution as written doesn't give the federal government the power to define marriage for the whole country and that, therefore, an amendment is necessary. (Would that these same folks would realize that it also doesn't give the feds the authority to prosecute the War on Drugs, for example.)

However, this raises an important question: If, as the president noted, there are already laws on the books at both the federal level and the state level to accomplish this, and these laws are already being routinely ignored by judges and local officials, what makes anyone think that a constitutional amendment will be obeyed? Won't the same people who ignore existing laws also ignore an amendment or at least find some loopholes in there to accomplish what they want anyway?

As to Bush's sincerity in stumping for an amendment, well, that's hard to tell. He's waffled and wavered on the idea for a long time. Regardless of his sincerity, it will help to rally his base to support him in an election year even though he has betrayed them in practically every other imaginable way.

(On a personal note, I think it's a pretty sad state of affairs and shows how far our culture has descended that the definition of marriage is even in question.)

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