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The Sanctity of Marriage has been attacked. And the motives are clear. The 14th amendment does not address same gender
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Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Section 1.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Civil Rights
Slaughterhouse Cases
Due Process
Substantive Due Process
Right of Privacy: Personal Autonomy
Territorial Jurisdiction
Equal Protection
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Plyer v. Doe (1982)
Section 4.
Debt
Section 5.
Enforcement Power
Commerce Clause
The 14th addresses EQUALITY--IF one group is permitted to do something IN THIS CASE MARRIAGE, then ALL GROUPS MUST BE ALLOWED to participate.
READ SECTION 1..
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
????? My reasoning tells me that the Constitution does not, anywhere, address who can marry whom. So therefore, by the constitution's own rules, who can marry whom is a decision left to "the people".
The framers of the constitution were men of character who could not fathom the perversion of homosexuality being treated acceptable. It was simply a nonissue.
The framers of the constitution were normal men, so perversion was not addressed.
Ben Franklin was probably gay and Jefferson had children out of wedlock with at least ONE of his slaves--this you call NORMAL??? I might enjoy spending an evening in a church that sees this as NORMAL...
Ben Franklin was probably gay and Jefferson had children out of wedlock with at least ONE of his slaves--this you call NORMAL??? I might enjoy spending an evening in a church that sees this as NORMAL...
You praise the constitution in one breath and denigrate the framers in the next. Unstable indeed.
You praise the constitution in one breath and denigrate the framers in the next. Unstable indeed.
Jefferson having sex with his slave is a FACT, how is that denigrating a bigot?
As for Franklin, this fact has been widely suspected and if it is true, it is no way negative, get you mind out of SATAN'S nest...
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