[tahiti]

"...the Tenth Amendment, which leaves the question of racial segregation to the states."

I would say that the 14th amendment has rendered the 10th amendment superfluous, which was probably an unintended consequence by the authors of the amendment and the "yea" voters for the amendment.

Under the principle of K.I.S.S. (keep is simple, stupid) and the presumption of liberty, the "right" to marry the human of your choice, regardless of gender, emanates from the 9th Amendment.

Mr. Sobran writes, "Which brings us to same-sex marriage. Nobody ever heard of it until ten years ago..."

I think it was more a matter of no one had the courage or the intestinal fortitude to withstand the ridicule and personal attacks that will and have surfaced, just to exert a right, "...retained by the people."

[o_zarkman44]

Being a member of the Majority, but having the will of any minority FORCED on us is like being occupied by a small, heavily armed occupation force. The majority of the population is resentful of the occupation. And eventually the majority will revolt and find a way to squash the occupation.

Only the willing can be converted to a philosophy. The unwilling will find validity in disagreement and resist intimidation by the occupiers. Doctrine has to be convincing before acceptance is achieved. Nothing has convinced me that gay marriage has any benefits to society.

The ability to say no is the true definition of civil rights.

[FormerLib]

Christopher Hitchens favors same-sex marriage not only because it sort of goes with hating Mother Teresa and Mel Gibson but also because he and his wife, who is a woman, live on the same floor as this really, really nice gay couple and if that isn’t a good reason for changing an ancient institution I don’t know what would be.

LOL! Perfect.