Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

“..nor shall any State…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” *That* is what the SCOTUS decision was based upon. There are over 2000 laws that cover the rights and privileges of married persons. By denying same-sex couples the right to marry, States were denying them “the equal protection of the laws”.

That IS The Constitution, not The Bible. Our laws are governed by the former, *not* the latter.

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Her Prophet Speaks: Rape Culture

..comment to a Sister who is presently volunteering at a rape crisis center..

"This has also reignited my thinking on how Rape Culture is a feature, not a bug, of Patriarchy. I know in my guts, in my fucking balls, how true that is. And how a lot of what I call Victim Feminism is a both an acknowledgment of that and yet also a denial of what that really means because it advocates 'half measures' in dealing with the logical harsh solutions. In the end, laws and social custom will not restrain my Brother's deep embedded desire you hunt you as sexual prey."