If you choose to ignore decades of precedence clearly stating the fact that SCOTUS did not recognize this incorporation theory and the fact some of the quotes from your other editorial provided came from men that reversed their opinion once in their home states, that's not my problem. The issue is the 14th Amendment was clearly to be applied selectively, namely Radical Republicans giving blacks certain civil rights, and nothing else. To state otherwise is being disingenuous.
I choose to read the debates and take the people who wrote the 14th Amendment at their word. I also consider the courts to have erred greviously in this matter, vis a vis what what meant when the amendment was passed, vs. what the case law now is. Or can you not read the plain text of the debates quoted in the article?