If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.