The Albuquerque Journal has published a good article laying out the history, arguments, and players behind the battle for gay marriage in New Mexico, which goes to trial next month.

Roughly two dozen current and former GOP lawmakers, represented by a Christian law group called Alliance Defending Freedom, filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court that staked out that position, according to The Associated Press.

The legislators claimed that “the judiciary should exercise caution when asked to divine fundamental and important constitutional rights not expressly provided in the Constitution’s text.”

In contrast, the attorneys for six same-sex couples who filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the Bernalillo County and Santa Fe County clerks argued that denying the couples access to marriage benefits was unconstitutional.

So it really comes down to this: What would the Founding Fathers, after they got over their shock at the fact that black people and women have voting rights, think of gay marriage? That's obviously the most important question in this whole debate, right?