June 30, 2015 12:34PM
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With the obvious limitations of things like consent and age.
The 14th Amendment doesn't mention "protected class" at all. Those words are not there. Whether or not sexual preference SHOULD be a protected class is an argument worth having (later), but it doesn't necessarily matter when discussing the 14th Amendment.
Here's the relevant text: "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."
It doesn't say that we can't discriminate based on protected classes. It says that ever person has equal protection of the laws, that States cannot abridge priveleges of citizens. It doesn't specify which citizens or which persons. The implication is that it applies to ALL of them. Even the gay ones.
So the question is whether the States, by banning gay marriage, are doing that. There are a certain amount of privileges that go with being married. I don't think anyone denies that. I, as a heterosexual, have the privilege of marrying the person that I like seeing naked.
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