I applaud the 5 majority members of the US Supreme Court who today in Obergefell v Hodges voted for the rights of the GLBT community to get married in all 50 states without exception.  This is as significant a legal victory as were Brown v Board of Education, Boynton v Virginia & Loving v Virginia were in progressing our society to break down the barriers of exclusion.  I only hope that the 4 justices who voted against it are forever vilified by history for being on the wrong side of it, like George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy & Adolf Hitler.

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution contains the treasured Equal Protection clause, which states:

“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.”

Equal protection for all persons means equal for all persons.  You can’t make laws that exclude certain groups simply because you don’t like them or your religion tells you that you shouldn’t.  If your religion is telling you to exclude people who otherwise wouldn’t be excluded except for the fact that they are of a different race, religion, gender, political or sexual orientation than yourself, you need to get a new religion.  You really need to get away from religion, but that’s a whole other argument.