Gee, maybe the Hate Amendment wasn’t such a great idea after all
[...]a new survey has shown that traditional marriage has ceased to be the preferred living arrangement in the majority of US households.
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•The findings, which were released in August but largely escaped public attention until now because of the large volume of data, indicated that marriage did not figure in nearly 55.8 million American family households, or 50.2 percent.
Gee, if the ~5-10% (20% in the Republican leadership) gay population of the United States could get married (and you can trust me when I say that some want to), perhaps you'd have slightly more married households.
But, really, the whole hate amendment plan isn't about marriage. The people who wish to nail those offensive laws into the corpse of the United States don't give a damn about any "sanctity" of marriage, they just want to distract their simpleminded base from the ongoing looting of the American Imperium (a distraction that works very well; just look at how the fundamentalist churches lined up to support S. 3930 when it looked like some Evil Party senators might have had an attack of common decency.) And if it turns out that people aren't getting married because it's been redefined as support for the Evil Party and their malignant ilk, score!, because it will be yet another large chunk of the electorate that can be demonised after the anti-gay pogrom has run its course.