Fred Smith says a proposed amendment is not "anti-gay marriage."

In several posts, Dome has referred to a constitutional amendment supported by the Republican gubernatorial candidate as "banning gay marriage."

But Smith said that's not accurate. He argues that the amendment would allow voters to decide whether to amend the constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

"There's a lot of relationships that that law would say are not legal," he said. "Polygamy, bigamy — just look at what's going on down in Texas — all that other stuff would be prohibited."

He says the law is meant to prevent a "liberal Superior Court judge" from overturning the state's marriage statutes.

"The law is not meant to be anti-anything," he said. "The law is a positive law meant to define marriage exactly the way it is in our statutes today."

Smith said that every other Southern state has voted on a similar amendment.

Elizabeth Edwards said winning a poll of happy marriages was easy.

A recent survey by the Ladies Home Journal found that 52 percent of women believe that John Edwards has a happy marriage, followed by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at 43 percent.

The closest Republican, U.S. Sen. John McCain, came in at 35 percent.

"The Republicans weren't exactly giving us a run for the money," Elizabeth Edwards joked at a book reading at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books tonight.

The Edwardses scored consistently across party lines, while other couples' ratings tended to break along party lines, according to the magazine.

More after the jump.

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