The Next 3/5 Compromise

In answer to yesterday's questions: yes, federalism concerns in traditional conservative thought will likely take a back door when gay marriage is concerned. Looks like Bush will support an amendment to the US Constitution that defines marriage as exlusively between men and women.
The constitutional amendment likely to win the backing of Mr. Bush is one that has already been introduced in Congress. The House version, sponsored by Representative Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colorado, states: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the Constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
On this subject, I'll go full rhetoric without regard to what are some terrible flaws in the analogy: this amendment is in the spirit of the three-fifths compromise. It takes a central aspect of our human experience and deems a segment of society unfit. I'm disgraced and disheartened with a country that would deny, in its fundamental law, this opportunity to so many.
Supporters of the amendment realaize that the federal government hasn't the power to define this traditional state issue. Thus, changing the federal Constitution in order to do so.