For only the 34th time in our nation's history, the United States Senate undertakes a most careful, solemn exercise - amending the Constitution of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity: dudes shouldn't marry dudes, and chicks shouldn't marry chicks?

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