well I'm sorry but the letter of the law states that this is NOT a civil rights issue. The argument that it's unconstitutional has been made and it's failed. So it's not like I'm the only person out there saying that. Actually there are a lot of African American groups out there insulted that this is likened to actual Civil rights struggles.

Ohhhh the 14th amendment. Did you know that the sitting president VETOED that amendment stating that it was unconstitutional and that the majority of states voted against it?

At any rate the Equal protection act is there not to guarantee any sort of equality but equal application as applied to civil rights. See before the 14th states could pick and choose who was protected by the Constitution. The 14th makes it so they can not do this this. This goes back to civil rights issue which per the letter of the law gay marriage is NOT.

There was no intent to make marriage a constitutional issue all 200 plus years ago. There was no intent to protect peoples "rights" of marriage. Not even a little bit. In fact the original constitution was designed to keep the government OUT of people's lives not interject it in their relationships.

For people who truly believe in freedom the only way to go is abolish marriage make it a complete non government issue and keep it an issue between private citizens and contracts between only them. Asking the government into your bedroom is a wide spread travesty that has NOT been equally applied since it's conception.