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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Why doesn't it exactly cover it? Read the 14th Amendment. Tell me why it won't cover it?
States Rights has been horribly corrupted because every time its been invoked, historically, it has been over an issue that wasn't a states right.
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Eh? Really, every time it's been invoked it's been over an issue that wasn't within their rights? While I recognize you're being hyperbolic, an easy example is the portion of the Civil Rights Act of '64 which changed the interpretation of the Bill of Rights from governing the relationship between The Government & The Governed to relationships
between the Governed. The most obvious example being forcing
private businesses to desegregate.
Well, the relevant section of the 14th amendment is:
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.
Maintaining marriage is between two people of different sexes =/= not denying homosexuals life, liberty or property. Homosexuals can still marry and recieve all the benefits therein, they just can't marry people of the same sex. So what this is about, then, is the definition of marriage.