I missed this when it happened, but in case you did, too, the proposed Marriage Protection Amendment failed in the House.
On a peripherally related note, Justice Scalia raised a stir last week when he said that, for the sake of argument, he would accept that “sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.” What he meant was that even if that were true, he doesn’t think it’s the right of the court to overturn laws prohibiting it. “It is blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral,” he said. To him, this was an argument for not overturning legislation regulating morality; to me, this is an argument for not passing legislation regulating morality. If no one possesses the capacity to decide what is moral, perhaps no one should be trying to impose their arbitrary decisions on the rest of the population.