I agree:  The Constitution, the Constitution, the Constitution: "the foundation stone upon which our civilization is built."  Nowhere in the Constitution did the Framers ever DREAM  that by writing the Fourteenth Amendment, they were thereby REQUIRING the States --- in whom the regulation of marriage was reposed --- to alter the definition of marriage to include a "consummation" that almost ALL the States punished as a criminal act.  Yes, indeed.  Let's have the Constitution.  The States would not be required to pass to enforce laws against gays, but neither would the States be REQUIRED to engage in charade of gay "marriage."