What really bugs me, from a procedural standpoint, is that there is no precedent for the Federal government to make ANY sort of law or Constitutional amendment governing marriage. Family law has traditionally been the purview of the states, and the last time I read the Tenth Amendment, it said something along the lines of, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Ergo, IMHO, the Feds haven't got the right to make a decision affecting marriage. Only the states do.

I wonder if anyone remembers what happened the last time states' rights vs. the Feds was made an issue of...about 150 years ago. It wasn't pretty.