necoandjeff wrote:


> I'm not interpreting the fourteenth
> amendment in a vacuum. There is a fair number of supreme court rulings that
> have enlightened us all as to what "No State shall...deny to any person
> within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" really means. You
> may disagree with the supreme court's interpretation, but I'm not so
> ambitious as to want the supreme court to completely overturn its prior
> jurisprudence on the subject.

I agree the Fourteenth has not traditionally been interpreted that way 
... it hasn't traditionally been interpreted to permit same-sex marriage 
either. Most people would argue that you are aiming to expand it.

KWW