American marriage (was Question about New Testament )

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> >  
> >  David
> > 
> > Really? Is there a serious attempt to pass such an amendment?
> >  
> > Maybe I'm just revealing my ignorance of how these things work, 
> but 
> > I would have imagined that the Supreme Court would block it (or 
> > don't they have the power?) on the grounds that it's an attempt 
to 
> > define 'marriage' rather than a genuine addition to the 
> Constitution.

Dubya announced last week that his lawyers were looking into the 
possibility.  He was careful to point out that he liked gay people 
(i.e. he still wants the gay vote) and that people shouldn't be 
prejudiced against gays because "we are all sinners."  (Thus 
implying, of course, that gay sex was sinful).

Barb:
> Well, the way the US system works you can't actually declare a 
> Constitutional amendment to be unconstitutional--it's PART of the 
> Constitution, so it is by definition constitutional.  That's why an 
> amendment is being proposed; anything that was a mere law could be 
> overridden by the Supreme Court (if you had the right mix of 
> people).  If a subsequent amendment to the US Constitution seems to 
> abbrogate a previous one, the previous one is considered to be 
> superseded by the new amendment (which isn't to say that the 
> previous amendment would be completely thrown out, but that 
marriage 
> would be considered an exception to the rule).
> 

For example, the amendment to repeal Prohibition superseded the 
Prohibition amendment.

--Joywitch, who apparently is an unrepentful sinner