Originally Posted by
Myrok
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were adopted to address the rights of the former slave population. That isn't opinion; that's historical FACT. Furthermore, you cited a list of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and, of course, homosexual marriage/rights aren't addressed anywhere in those documents) as well as a citation for the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. To wit, I've simply asserted that the Court never had the authority to use the EPC of the 14th Amendment on this issue as it was SPECIFICALLY designed to ADDRESS the RIGHTS OF the NEGRO POPULATION in the AFTERMATH of the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, nor did they have the right to use it on a wide variety of cases (including a large portion of the cases that you're attempting to cite). My point is about ORIGINALISM, STATES' RIGHTS, the WILL OF THE PEOPLE (which the Government was designed to represent), the MISAPPLICATION OF THE LAW via a nebulous and open ended clause on numerous occasions, and JUDICIAL TYRANNY. You're citing the five justices that ruled in favor of the issue while ignoring the opinions of the four that ruled against it, and yet again, I'm left highlighting that my point is that they never had the AUTHORITY to take up the matter to begin with.