The phrase "a marriage amendment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing legal changes or proposals related to marriage laws, often in the context of defining or altering the legal recognition of marriage.
Example: "The proposed legislation includes a marriage amendment that aims to clarify the definition of marriage in our state constitution."
Alternatives: "marriage law change" or "marriage policy amendment".
"If we had to depend on the young evangelical pastors to get us a marriage amendment here in Kansas it never would have happened," Wright said.
Kluwe said he does not plan any more activism, following his high-profile efforts to encourage defeat of a marriage amendment that would have changed Minnesota's state constitution by defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Remember our Jeremiah-like presence in your ranks on the privacy issue when you demand a national ID, or when you hamstring embryonic stem-cell research, or when you make a show of festooning the Constitution with a marriage amendment.
The church has been active in fighting marriage equality legislation since the 1990s, and in 2006 joined other faiths in asking Congress for a marriage amendment to the Constitution.
On one thing they agree: Polls in every other state that has had a marriage amendment on the ballot have consistently undercounted voters who oppose same-sex marriage by significant percentages.
At the first debate, the candidates were all quick to distance themselves from anything resembling a pro-gay-marriage position: hence the urge to express support for a marriage amendment to the Constitution that would be even more crushing than the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
He had made similar federalist arguments before the 2004 election, saying that he didn't support a federal marriage amendment -- a break with President George W. Bush.
We miss her loving support now as Minnesota finds itself in the midst of a debate surrounding a constitutional marriage amendment that will be on our ballots in November.
But he cannot now support a federal marriage amendment without appearing a flip-flopper.(Photo credit: AFP).
That didn't stop Bush, however, from later promoting a federal marriage amendment, part of a strategy to bring religious conservatives out to vote for his re-election.
Mr. Romney offered a smorgasbord of his stances, promising to champion a federal marriage amendment banning same-sex marriage, convene a White House meeting to look for ways to strengthen the family and appoint justices "who won't legislate from the bench".
