Our goal was basically to make sure the voters clearly knew what the amendment would mean and what it would do.

I think personally the bill was misguided from the start.

I think the fact that questions weren't even raised shows this bill was misguided from the start.

It's really an attack on all Virginia families. Even the proponents of the bill recognized there were all these exceptions and generalities.

We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It's really important that voters know what their vote will mean when they cast it in November. We look forward to having that discussion with the voters.

Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the Virginia Constitution to prohibit marriage equality for same-sex couples, civil unions and other marriage look-alikes would somehow strengthen or protect heterosexual marriage.