I do believe a federal marriage amendment will be the answer.

The proposed marriage amendment needed 50 votes to be presented to the voters.

Peterson also supports the federal marriage amendment and the death penalty.

And so that can't be what the marriage amendment is about, because it has no effect on parenting.

"There is a line that's been crossed," he said, referring to Bush's support for the federal marriage amendment.

"The first thing that popped up," he said, "was the federal marriage amendment."

Still, the vote was largely symbolic; the Senate has already rejected the marriage amendment.

Though President Bush endorsed the federal marriage amendment then, there's a reason he hasn't pushed it since.