When you use it as a reference you are comparing it to gay marriage loving vs. Virginia is not about gay marriage There are no supreme court rulings on gay marriage. The 14TH amendment is not an umbrella amendment that gives rights to illegal acts.
I did not use it to show any gay marriage. Someone claimed there was no "right to marry". Loving v. Virginia ruled that there was.
When I use it as a reference, it is simply a reference.
Let me see if I can dumb this down enough. If you try and tell young people today that there were laws against interracial marriages, many of them think it was 100 years ago. They do not comprehend that the gov't would punish someone for marrying someone of another race. And they are amazed that people would work so hard to keep those laws in place.
Now, someday when gay marriage is commonplace, I think people will look back and be amazed that these gay marraiges were not recognized by state and federal law. I also think they will be amazed that people fought so hard to keep gay marriages from happening.
Can you grasp it now? I am not comparing gay marriage to race or to interracial marriage. I am comparing the way people currently view the old laws with the way I think people in the future will view our current laws. The comparison is about people views.