"When the President of the United States originates the idea of a consittutional amendment and says he will support such a porposition, I kinda take him seriously."

Oh, if it comes before him, he'll sign it. Of course he didn't originate it, it was first proposed some time ago, a bit before Clinton signed DOMA, wasn't it? As we've discussed the proposed amendment merely puts in writing the definition of marriage that existed in every state since the beginning of history. If activist courts reinventing the "COsntitution" to suit their social agenda and contrary to the wishes of the majority of those 300 million employers of theirs, then a good portion of those employers, no one would have proposed it up, would they?