I haven't read all the posts, and I'm not going to. I've had many discussions on this topic, and it's moot.
This is all I want to add:
1) Banning gay marriages in the CONSTITUTION is absurd. That's just as moronic as banning marriages between people with certain skin colors. It's making a prejudice into a law.
This is NOT a Constitutional issue. If WE THE PEOPLE allow something like this into our Constitution, we're fukt, and I'm moving to Canada.
It's one thing to make a state law allowing/banning the marriages, but I'd consider it a raping of the Constitution if we let GW make a law based on sexual preferance into OUR Constitution. F*(k that.
2) It's sad that issues like this are going to be "key" debate topics. What about issues like,
* Where'd my job go?
*Why did you send my labor job to India?
Oh, other issues like, say,
*Why do we still have people starving to death on our streets?
and
*Why is this country splitting in to ULTRA-rich people and ULTRA-poor people?
My favorite -
*Why are you encouraging USA to become USA Inc.?
Anyway...my point is this: If my country is going to crap, I don't give a crap about who's humping who in the privacy of his/her own home.
/rant off