Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
The equal protection applies to marriage, not same-sex marriage.The Equal Protection Clause (to me) was never a strong argument when you consider how it can be otherwise interpreted:
"The constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups."
The way that this is worded does not make same-sex marriage unconstitutional if same-sex marriage is illegal for everyone regardless of demographic. In this case, there is no legal protection for any same-sex couple to marry. The violation would exist if (for example) the law was protecting same-sex couples of a certain ethnicity but not others.
To simplify it further, if interracial same-sex couples are enjoying the protection under the law of same sex marriage then all same-sex couples of any race should be able to enjoy the same.
You are convoluting the issue more than it actually was. Read the decisions in those cases.