[publius911]

Just asking: is there a constitutional right to heterosexual marriage?

The Constitution was never meant to enumerate the obvious, BUT assumed certain natural law and biological laws as self-evident.

It never occurred to them that sociopaths would ever challenge those self evident laws of nature.

[onedoug]

There was an article on FR yesterday or the day before arguing that it’s in the Preamble: “...and to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity....”

‘Stirred a bit of row, to which I argued, and remain in agreement.

[Hawthorn]

>> Just asking: is there a constitutional right to heterosexual marriage? <<

Yes. No doubt about it. All the traditional rights available to British citizens under the Common Law, plus any other rights established by the 13 colonies and by the 13 new states, were "passed down" by the 9th and 10th Amendments to U. S. citizens.

Ninth Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people

Tenth Amendment:

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