GOP hopeful
Thompson would push for a marriage amendment

GOP hopeful Fred Thompson may have yet to officially announce his candidacy, but that didn't stop him from saying that a constitutional amendment could "cure" the disparity between different state laws on same-sex marriage.

During an interview in Iowa with CNN's John King, Thompson intimated that rather than leaving marriage up to individual states, he would use the bully pulpit as president to push for a federal marriage amendment--an initiative that has dismal prospects at best as long as at least one of the chambers of Congress stays in Democratic hands.

King: "Would you, a President Fred Thompson, actively push a presidential amendment banning gay marriage?"

Thompson: "Yes, yes, I think that with regard to gay marriage you have a full faith and credit issue. I don't think one state ought to be able to pass a law requiring gay marriage or allowing gay marriage and have another state be required to follow along under full faith and credit. There's some exceptions and exemptions for that. Hasn't happened yet, but I think a federal court very well likely will go in that direction, and a constitutional amendment would cure that." (The Advocate )