Now understand I’m just playing Devil’s Advocate here, I do not believe marriage can be anything but a union between a man and a woman, but the Supremes are using the 14th Amendment to justify saying that same sex marriage is a constitutionally guaranteed right.
Suppose a state passed a law saying that black children had to go into separate schools, and white children in other schools, if only to get them a better education? The Supremes would use the 14th to strike it down. That fits the intent of the 14th.
The bottom line is the Supremes THINK they have the power to use the 14th in any case they decide, and use that part of the Constitution (that clearly wasn’t about Gays at all) to strike those marriage laws down.
So the whole legal system in this country does what they’re told. Judges issue warrants, cops arrest and apprehend. Fight the arrest and get beaten or killed. Ergo, it is law. They have the POWER to kill you—by proxy—if you defy them.
No one can defy them openly. We are already in a tyranny. The Revolution is either here, or we succumb to tyranny.
The 14th secedes nothing of any other Amendment. Using this tactic would conflict with numerous others, and as such, would/should (logically) fall from consideration.
Of course, the same can be said vs. 16th. The 4th, 5th and 13th were never over-turned by the former.
As well as gun ‘control’, welfare, social security, etc. etc. etc.
“We are already in a tyranny.”
What amazes me is that some still don’t think so! In my own view we have been under a form of tyranny since well before my birth five days before D-Day, even though it is far worse now.