The crime is that “equal protection” has been turned into the de facto ERA amendment. Why did the left ever want an ERA amendment if everything they needed was already in the Constitution? Phyllis Schafly said the ERA would mean women being drafted and same-sex marriage would be made legal. Now the court has made “equal protection” mean the same thing as the ERA. Which opens up everything Schafly warned would happen if the ERA was passed.
Thing is, reading the Congressional Record of the debate over the 14th Amendment, it was all about granting freed slaves equal rights. Nothing more.