[TrueFaith77]

As an American, it is your duty to uphold the spirit of the U.S. Constitution when you enter the voting booth- that is your moral compass.

The spirit or the law? The spirit is an abstract notion. Note that for a Catholic, the concept of "freedom" (as in the bill of rights) is very different from that of a Protestant, Puritan, or deist (as were many of the Founders), as it would be for an atheist or a secular libertarian or a Socialist or a chiffonhead.

If the "law," then one could not have voted for Roosevelt, who overturned Prohibition, because Prohibition was at that time part of the U.S. Constitution. (What was unconstitutional--in my limited knowledge of the subject lol--what was an infraction of Civil Rights was that it was made consequently illegal for effiminate men to congregate in establishments that serve alcohol.--Thanks, FDR!)

The Constitution is a "living document"--it is, via our votes for representatives, ultimately a reflection of our Democratic will. Consequently, it is well within "the spirit of the Constitution" for a person to vote to define "marriage"--either as restrictive or as expansive in its definition.


ETA: Also, a friend of mine is getting his PhD in Economic History. He was explaining to me that the reason marriage became "civil" and regulated was because of the expanding social safety net. It needed to make legally binding the responsibility of father/husband so that they could not just up and leave dependent wife (and child) to be a burden on the taxpayers. I wonder if that is still relevant--men are no longer the sole breadwinners, DNA testing makes paternity the issue rather than marriage, adoption has its own legally binding parent-child responsibilities (speaking of, I think gay people being allowed to adopt is a MUCH more significant "civil rights" issue than marriage). Again: I say the government should be out of marriage; but as a consequence of this history and this fact, it suggests to me that it is well within the government's perview (and thus the voters') to define "civil marriage" along biological lines.