With all due respect wagglebee, I do not know where you are coming from regarding your misguided stance on homosexuality and the law.
More specifically, regardless of pro-gay interpretations of the 14th Amendments (14A) Equal Protections Clause by state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices, note that the Founding States had originally decided that the states did not have to respect the rights protected by the Bill of Rights (BoR). Only the federal government had to respect such rights.
So even if the Founding States had expressly protected LGBT rights in the BoR, the states did not have to respect such rights.
And even after 14A was ratified, both John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, and later the Supreme Court, clearly indicated that 14A applies to the states only those rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, LGBT protections not among those rights.
”Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” - Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
” 3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” - Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
Again, since the states had never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT rights before 14A was ratified, the states not obligated to respect constitutional rights anyway, such rights did not automatically exist after that amendment was ratified.
No, I'm not at all misguided.
I am unaware of ANY LAW at the state or federal level that has EVER denied rights to homosexuals.
Did states have laws against sodomy? Sure, but this was about a sexual act, not a person's sexual orientation.
Did states have laws prohibiting certain people from voting? Sure, but it made no distinction about sexual orientation.
Did states have laws banning homosexuals from being married? NO! Homosexuals have ALWAYS had the same rights of marriage as anyone else, e.g. if they were of age and not otherwise barred from marriage (incarcerated, etc.), they were free to marry another person of the opposite gender. Even during the period of the abhorrent anti-miscegenation laws, nothing was said about a person's sexual orientation.
No, what homosexuals have been seeking now are SPECIAL rights that have NEVER been granted to anyone.