[pogo101]

I just wish folks who favor legalizing gay marriage could be honest in admitting that the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1871 to prevent racial discrimination by state and local governments, was not meant to apply to gays or gay marriage.

Doesn't mean that states can't vote it in, as New York did recently. But the notion that "it's (gay marriage is) already IN the Constitution" is preposterous.

[alpo]

I believe homosexuality was an offense punished by death in some states around the time the Constitution was written.