I've been watching the online discussions about the proposed constitutional ammendment to ban gay marriage with bemusement. It is such a classic sleight of hand trick. If I was a sitting president who'd been discovered to have started a war that cost thousands of lives primarily to enrich my defence contractor buddies and had the opposition party's presidential candidates polling better than me I'd want to come up with a way to focus the public discourse away from these issues. Perhaps with controversial proposed legislation that would be a hot button topic but most likely wouldn't get passed anyway? Yeah, probably.  

It is unfortunate that such political games end up affecting people's lives and preventing the pursuit of happiness. At least it's not another phony war.