6th August 2010, 6:12 PM
^. The 14th amendment to the Constitution was created to ensure that ex slaves had the same rights as everyone else. None of the framers of the 14th amendment ever had the issue of marriage on their mind when they framed it. To try to apply an issue that was never considered in the minds of the amendment's creators is childish and silly.
To add more to my argument, I give you constitutional scholar and Harvard graduate Tom Woods. In Who Killed the Constitution?, Tom Woods states the following:
"There was, as the Supreme Court noted in its first pass at applying the Fourteenth Amendment, no mystery about the meaning of the amendment's provisions: they were to ensure that recently freed slaves had the basic rights of citizens" (Woods, pg. 45).
As stated earlier, marriage was never a question that came up during the fourteenth's debate.
Marriage is, and always has been, an issue left to our States united as so duly noted by the tenth.
To add more to my argument, I give you constitutional scholar and Harvard graduate Tom Woods. In Who Killed the Constitution?, Tom Woods states the following:
"There was, as the Supreme Court noted in its first pass at applying the Fourteenth Amendment, no mystery about the meaning of the amendment's provisions: they were to ensure that recently freed slaves had the basic rights of citizens" (Woods, pg. 45).
As stated earlier, marriage was never a question that came up during the fourteenth's debate.
Marriage is, and always has been, an issue left to our States united as so duly noted by the tenth.