14th amendment Quote by Ted Cruz

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

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

— Antonin Scalia

So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment…

— James Lileks

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

— Ted Olson

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way,…

— Jeff Sessions

I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction…

— Ken Cuccinelli

The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

— Ernest Istook

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

— Corrine Brown

The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they…

— Jeff Greenfield

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my…

— Lisa Murkowski