To the editor:

Congratulations to the good citizens of Missouri for their overwhelming vote in defense of marriage. Unfortunately, the constitutional amendment they passed didn’t go far enough to do much good.

A proper amendment to defend marriage would have denied this covenant to:

1. Adulterers (a sin mentioned right there in Genesis beside homosexuality).

2. Child molesters, beaters and haters.

3. Divorcees, at least following more than some reasonable number of failed marriages.

4. People prone to violent solutions.

Conversely, co-habitation would be denied to all those, regardless of sexual orientation, unwilling to commit to marriage.

Such an amendment might do something about the decline of the family and of respect for marriage in America, if there are enough qualifiers.

Paul Enos,

Lawrence