50 yrs ago, this was the same argument that was held so that bigots (big idiots) could keep the races from intermarrying. Many churches also upheld the idea. It seems that some of the religious are just as bigoted as the homophobes. Claim it as what ever fits your bill, degenerate, unholy, deminishing the values of the church/state married, a watering down of an institution, whatever, it will be eventually looked at as a time when our Government a a large percentage of the public was as as racist as back in the 50's when George Wallace was was trying to keep down the Blacks in Alabama. It's a real shame that we still can't get past the same hard learnt lessons when only the shading or the background is different.

Barry