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I am supposing you intended to insult me by calling me a Luddite, or perhaps this was unintended. Just like piling all kinds of benefits unto those who copulate and denying them to others who don’t, wasn’t intended to discriminate against gays, but just did.

The Supreme Court has differentiated the discrimination suffered by gays (and by women and immigrants) from the discrimination suffered by blacks, saying discrimination against blacks was invidious, while discrimination against gays (and women and immigrants) didn’t reach that level. The discrimination against gays was mostly, if not totally unintended. Still, there it is.

Conservatives sought to improve on what nature gives us as marriage and wound up - possibly - violating the 14th Amendment (we’ll see what the Supremes say), and destroying marriage.

BTW, there are TWO quite different 'privileges and immunities' clauses in the Constitution. One refers to 'privileges and immunities' while the other refers to 'privileges or immunities' ~ the one is to prohibit establishment of a class system (clearly violated by the civil rights laws) and the other is to allow different states to have different laws ~ that is, all the states don't have to have the same law.

NONE of that has anything to do with how you copulate, or if you copulate at all. You should read up on the issues