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Article Title: Marriage and More — at Stake

Both were against amending the Constitution to define “marriage” as the union of
a man and a woman, and their arguments were, in some sense, aesthetic: the Constitution
is a beautiful text; amending it should only be done under the gravest circumstances;
one shouldn’t amend the Constitution to resolve a policy issue that should be settled
legislatively. To do so was to mar the text, like defacing a painting or taking
a hammer to a sculpture.

The notion that we were governed by the text of the Constitution was a pious memory,
I replied; we hadn’t been governed that way for decades. Yes, it was a shame that
the Framers’ beautifully balanced text had to be subjected to amendments in order
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Authored By: George Weigel