Federal same sex marriage amendment - different constitutional agenda? [View All]

[DS9Voy]

Something occurred to me earlier today after I read the news that bush was calling for the same sex marriage amendment again today.

Frankly, it didn't make any sense to me. If this was October of 2006 I would expect them to play that card. But it's not. There's no election for sometime. So why play that hand now?

It also occurred to me that even with the change in the senate there is no way in hell such an amendment would pass.

Then it occurred to me that a sufficient number of states to pass such an amendment have already passed a state version... which also makes up sufficient numbers of states to call for a constitutional convention.

I have to wonder - is it possible they are preparing the fundamentalist base to push the states for a constitutional convention?

A constitutional convention has the authority to rewrite *any* part of the constitution. It's made up entirely of delegates the states send to that convention, and essentially they can do whatever they want. It could be anything from removing presidential term limits to repealing the first amendment.

They've been hinting they want to change sections of the constitution such as presidential term limits (or nullify them all together. see the patriot act). Clearly the federal congress isn't going to allow it, thus a constitutional convention would be the only means they have.

No one would support calling a constitutional convention to take a look at the bill of rights, but if they called it and claimed they only wanted to "protect marriage" a sufficient number of states may go for it getting them a constitutional convention. I have to wonder if this is a goal. Otherwise I don't see what all the talk of amending the constitution is getting them at this point in time.