Entries by Joe Miller

Building the Resistance to Same-Sex Marriage: The Fourteenth Amendment Does Not Mandate Same-Sex Marriage

In our second in the series on Building the Resistance to Same Sex Marriage: Generally, courts have ruled for same-sex marriage using either the “due process clause” or the “equal protection clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment, or both. That raises a simple question: is it really possible that when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868 the framers intended that it sanction same-sex marriage? Of course not.