The Christianist leader, James Dobson, just wrote the following for CNN, about the FMA:
All of these senators are smart enough to know that, first, it would create utter chaos to have 50 different definitions of marriage in one country, where every state is required by the Constitution to support the laws of the other 49. Come on, Senator McCain and company. You and your colleagues know better than that.
For well over a century, the United States lived with different state laws on civil marriage. Many of Dobson’s fundamentalist preachers were as certain then that black-white marriages were as alien to God’s will as they believe same-sex marriage is today. There was no "utter chaos." Moreover, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and all constitutional precedent prevent the imposition of one state’s civil marriages on any other state. These facts are not in dispute. James Dobson is an intelligent man; and he’s engaged in deliberate deception. Notice also Dobson’s view of God:
If the battle to protect marriage takes even five more years, liberal judges and activists will have destroyed this 5,000-year-old institution, which was designed by the Creator, Himself.
So the Creator of the universe is no match for liberal judges! And 5,000 years can be erased in half a decade. Whoever knew the judiciary had so much power?
The Dish 