[Swordmaker]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

That's not responsive to the question or the reality in which we find ourselves. It is becoming obvious the problem here is you live in a fantasyland of "what ought to be" rather than what is.

[TexasGator]

“That’s not responsive to the question “

It absolutely is! You asked me to cite a federal statute legalizing same-sex marriage. I posted to you that it is NOT a federal but a state issue.