14th amendment Quote by Rush Limbaugh

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

— Antonin Scalia

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality…

— Mike Huckabee

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost…

— Noam Chomsky

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the…

— Ted Cruz

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

— Coretta Scott King

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment,…

— Rush Limbaugh

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.

— Coretta Scott King

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

— Dina Titus

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a…

— Erwin W. Lutzer