This is simply political brinksmanship by the dems and the coerced some goprs from bigger cities to play along. The Senate will tell them to put the sentence back in.
And then, it'll get voted down in November. 
Either way you're going to lose.
It will pass as unamended and the people will affirm traditional marriage. Either way we will win.
"traditional marriage" meaning a woman becoming a man's property? yeah, you'd love that, wouldn't you?
The definition of marriage does not encompass "a woman becoming a man's property".
Sure it can, if you define marriage that way.
