Existing Laws Allowing For Gay Marriages

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment XIV
Section 1. 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.

1) The States and Federal Government do not recognize the legitimacy of a marriage without a state-issued license, making marriage a civil institution. This violates the First Amendment all ready, because if we are free to worship and marry in a church, the law should recognize it automatically, without the need of a state-issued license.

2) The current situation of state-issued licenses for marriage to be recognized by the law and to receive the 1,049 legal protections therein is a discriminatory civil institution based on sex.

3) A constitutional amendment defining marriage as restricted to one man and one woman to preserve the sanctity of marriage violates both the First Amendment AND the Fourteenth Amendment.

Attacking gay marriage, therefore is attacking two amendments in the Bill of Rights, and any constitutional restriction here with regards to freedom of worship and equal protection under the law is an attack on the Constitution and Bill of Rights themselves...a downright attack on two centuries of advancement in this country. The Bill of Rights supercedes state laws as well.

I'm curious to see how they plan on butchering the Bill of Rights to protect their prejudices against other Americans.