1. **** traditional
2. Marriage is about more than reproducing.
In America, we have this thing called "law."
The process for this law is written down in the Constitution. It is the laws the government must obey. If the government does not obey these, it is behaving in a criminal manner as it is in violation of the contract that established its authority.
Following?
Within the Constitution is a specific set of authorities granted to the national government and the States. The federal government is limited to certain authorities and the state government is denied certain authorities. In other words, the Constitution specifies who gets to make certain types of laws.
For example, the States are not allowed to mint their own currency. By becoming members of the United States, a nation yields its right to print currency to our federal government. It also is forbidden from making laws to tax people for traveling into its state or out of its state (as well as goods). These are things that individual countries would potentially (and quite often) do to each other - but that is not how States within a federated union behave. Thus, such authorities are yielded.
On the other hand, the Federal Government is not given unlimited power and authority over the States. It is given a very specific set of limited powers. The Tenth Amendment was added specifically to drive home this distinction. Any power not specifically granted to the Federal Government or denied to the State governments is reserved to the States.
In other words, unless there is an amendment to the Constitution to expand the purview of the Federal Government, it cannot assume additional authorities on its own accord.
Still following?
Where, in the Constitution, is marriage mentioned?
It isn't.
What does that mean, kiddos?
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It means that the authority belongs to the States unless and until an amendment is passed to the Constitution that grants the federal government jurisdiction.
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" At the drafting of the Constitution, the states all had marriage laws of one kind or another. There were wide disparities among them, both then and now, and such disparities have existed at all times in between.
The founders had no desire to settle such matters, and they did not wish a future Congress to do so either. The Constitution they wrote left only two choices: Either allow the states to regulate marriage (with, perhaps, federal consequences to follow)—or else return marriage to the people, to individuals, families, churches, and communities. Either approach would be consistent with the Constitution. The Defense of Marriage Act, however, is not."
That was written by someone in a homosexual marriage back in 2012.
