It seems that the GOP (Gay Ol' Party?) fears that the recent Supreme Court Decision keeping what goes on in a bedroom between its occupants private will lead to the downfall of Western Civilization. Well everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if they are wrong. Ah, but to make things better, those forward-looking prudes want to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriages (sorry Andy, I think I called this one in the 10-Watt Sully post) a while back.

The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate said on Sunday he supported a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist expressed concern about the Supreme Court's decision last week to strike down a Texas sodomy law. He said he supported an amendment that would reserve marriage for relationships between men and women.

``I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament, and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between, what is traditionally in our Western values has been defined, as between a man and a woman,'' said Frist, of Tennessee. ``So I would support the amendment.''

A constitutional amendment is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but this one might have a small chance of getting a thin-supermajority in the Senate. Remember that the ERA did too, and it was a far more worthy cause. But it died in the States, and I suspect this will too. It also might die from over-reaching, the same folks who are likely pushing this reside in places like ummm, Virgina Beach and Lynchburg VA, and have a tendency to push too far on their first try to do anything. I doubt they'll be given a second bite, especially if they try to add in language for anything else like say, Abortion.

Let's hope this dies as speedy and painless death it deserves in the Senate, these repeated GOP attempts at social engineering are getting really boring.