[TheRealVille]

Only if there are enough votes to amend the US Constitution through the same process that was used to protect the civil rights of minorities - which requires two-thirds majorities in each house of Congress followed by ratification of three-fourths of the state legislatures. Constitutionally speaking, one does not become a member of a minority through one's behavior or thoughts.

Defining marriage as a legal contract between one man and one woman does not violate anybody's civil rights. It does not persecute any minority. It never has. Arguments to the contrary have no basis in fact.

Certainly it does. It denies same sex couples the same legal marital rights and privileges that married people get. Stardust has already discussed some of these.