All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within

its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This means that all US citizens are created equal and have equal rights despite the opinion of the majority. Marriage is a privilege of American citizens, and it allows several immunities from taxes and federal laws.

If an amendment to ban Gay marriage is instated, it will be the first time that the Constitution will have been used to transform a minority in the United States into second class citizens. Time after time the Constitution has been used to protect those who needed it. Women were second rate citizens, property, before the Constitution stepped in to protect them. African Americans suffered the same fate. The Constitution was made as a frame of rules to protect every single American citizen despite race, religion, gender, or creed. The word “sexuality” does not appear in the Constitution, but are homosexuals not citizens too? If a discriminatory amendment is placed in the Constitution, it will stand as a precedent allowing negative interpretations that will form a continuous break down of gay rights. Supreme rule is dependent upon constitutional interpretation.

Marriage is not only a religious binding, but it is also a political connection in this co

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