that's not the 'argument' or issue...
Yes, it is. For the first time in US History in 2015 a USSC case confirmed that just some repugnant minority sexual behaviors who decided to identify themselves by their behaviors, have the same status and protections as race re: the 14th Amendment. Just the Court's favorite repugnant behaviors though...not others....which paradoxically violates the 14th at the same time..
people are who they are, it's a free country...
as citizens, we all have the same legal status and protections from state laws... that's what the 14th actually says...SCOTUS rules on issues as they naturally arise within our legal system, so you're thinking on this is backward....fact is, no one is asking for state approval of their sexual behavior...gay couples are asking their state(s) for equal access to all that state marriage laws legally convey...
1. I'm not a religious conservative. I'm also a democrat and voted for Clinton twice and...regrettably because of no better alternative...Obama twice.
2. Behaviors cannot seek protection from state regulations. All civil and penal codes in any state are regarding the regulation of behaviors by their respective majorities. Race and behavior are NOT legal equals. Because if they were, any repugnant behavior could escape local regulation by the majority...not JUST your and the 5 Justices' pet favorite minority repugnant behaviors. Toss the false premise.
Save that behaviors can seek protection from state regulation. Speech is a behavior. Religion is a behavior. Seeking redress of grievances is a behavior. Both keep and bearing arms is a behavior. Assembly is a behavior.
All of them are protected. Debunking the entire premise of your pseudo-legal nonsense.
3. Gays can't hijack the marriage license for one pure, irrefutable and rock-solid reason in law: that violates a necessity to children who also share the marriage contract's enjoyments implicitly...indeed for who it was created over a thousand years ago. "Gay marriage" CANNOT EVER provide the necessary father and mother to children. There is no substitute for a father. There is no substitute for a mother. If a contract violates a necessity to an infant (all minors under age), it isn't merely voidable upon challenge, it is ALREADY VOID AT ITS INCEPTION. Void upon its face without challenge. That's how rock-solid "necessities to infants in contracts" law is. Look it up.
Save that there is no 'right to opposite sex parents'. Nor does the law recognize opposite sex parenting as a 'necessity to children'. Nor does any law recognize that children are married to their parents, as you insist.
Making your 'irrefutable', 'rock solid' reason.....just more pseudo-legal nonsense, signifying nothing.
Back in reality, the courts have found the exact opposite of your claim, instead confirming that denying same sex parents marriage hurts their children. And that the marriage of same sex parents benefits their children.
With Windsor describing how children are hurt when marriage is denied when their same sex parents are denied marriage:
US v. Windsor said:
And it humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples. The law
in question makes it even more difficult for the children to understand the integrity and closeness of their own family and its concord with other families in their community and in their daily lives....
....DOMA also brings financial harm to children of same sex couples. It raises the cost of health care for familiesby taxing health benefits provided by employers to their workers’ same-sex spouses. And it denies or reduces benefits allowed to families upon the loss of a spouse and parent, benefits that are an integral part of family security.
Which by your own reasoning would thus mandate that any law that PREVENTED same sex parents from being able to marry would be void. And it gets worse for your claims. As in Obergefell they talk of all the benefits to children of marriage of their same sex parents.
Obergefell v. Hodges said:
The Court has recognized these connections by describing the varied rights as a unified whole: “[T]he right to ‘marry, establish a home and bring up children’ is a central part of the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause." . Under the laws of the several States, some of marriage’s protections for children and families are material. But marriage also confers more profound benefits. By giving recognition and legal structure to their parents’ relationship, marriage allows children “to understand the integrity and closeness of their own family and its concord with other families in their community and in their daily lives." Marriage also affords the permanency and stability important to children’s best interests
Just obliterating your argument again. And yet it still gets worse for you:
The Supreme Court explicitly detatched the right to marry from having kids with this passage:
Obergefell v. Hodges said:
The marriage laws at issue thus harm and humiliate the children of same-sex couples. This does not mean that the right to marry is less meaningful for those who do not or cannot have children. Precedent protects the right of a married couple not to procreate, so the right to marry cannot be conditioned on the capacity or commitment to procreate.
And 'boom'. Even the very concept of your gibberish is rendered into a little puff of pseudo-legal smoke. There's a reason why your every legal prediction has been utterly wrong. Its because you ignore the actual law in favor of what you imagine the law is. And the courts aren't bound to your imagination.
Or in all likelihood, even aware of it.