In regards to Ron Davies posting about keeping this out of the 2008 campaign as it brings the opposition to the polls, I'm afraid Ihave to agree. The problem is that it is the political right wing that usually brings this issue to the campaign. Witness what happened in Ohio in 2004. A constitutional ammendment that would forbid any future laws legalizing same sex marriage was put on the ballot in the November election that year, even though there had never been any serious attempt to legalize same sex marriage in Ohio. It had been a non-issue until the Republicans cynically put this on the ballot in order to bring more conservatives to the polls. It worked exactly as intended. Bush won Ohio by 1% of the vote and won the country by winning Ohio. If Ohio had gone to Kerry he would be our president.
    The ammendment also passed, so we now have a situation where we are telling future generations what to believe (as if they couldn't vote to overturn this ammendment in a hundred years if they wished). How absurd. But the real damage was in giving this moronic cowboy and his Machiavellian administration four more years to ruin this and other nations.