#constitutional amendment

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

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I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

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The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. ↗

— Corrine Brown

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In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

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I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. ↗

— Ed Case

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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. ↗

— Judy Biggert

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I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. ↗

— Mary Cheney

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