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As a matter of fact, Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A), which nobody seems to know about anymore, prohibits the states from making laws / policies which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights. And pro-gay, PC interpretations of 14A's Equal Protections Clause aside, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay “rights” like gay marriage, the states in question violated Section 1, imo, by using constitutionally unprotected gay “rights” to trump 1st Amendment freedom of religious expression.

If you're referring to: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;" then I'm afraid it doesn't apply to "constitutionally enumerated rights." In fact, it doesn't apply to rights at all, but only, as it expressly says, "privileges or immunities." In addition, it's not even talking about "the (American) People" who have God-given rights, but only "citizens of the United States" who are accorded those "privileges or immunities" by that government.

And that's the mechanism - our we are all being held under administrative, corproate laws of PRIVILEGES. You cannot even bring up the term "rights" in a Court - you will be held as out of order for lack of standing.

Everything is being done by the Left as an adjustment of specified privileges - all of it. That's where the fight is, but no one is there to fight. They don't even know the subject exists.

We have not, in fact, lost any rights at all. They're just not being used - and no one cares to find out how.

"If you're referring to: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;" then I'm afraid it doesn't apply to "constitutionally enumerated rights.""

With all due respect Talisker, your assertion that the “privileges and immunities" indicated in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) don’t apply to constitutionally enumerated rights is incorrect. This is because the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had clearly indicated the first eight amendments to the Constitution as examples of constitutional privileges and immunities that 14A applies to the states.

"Mr. Speaker, that the scope and meaning of the limitations imposed by the first section, fourteenth amendment of the Constitution may be more fully understood, permit me to say that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly [emphasis added] defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States." — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe (See middle column.)