Just think...

[Playinghardball]

[TheWraith]

1. 14th amendment. No state shall deny to any person the equal protection of the law.

Any person means any person.

[tkmorris]

2. Then one wonders why the 19th was necessary

Seems a bit odd, don't you think?

[Meiko]

4. Probably because

up until the 19th amendment was brought in the states made the determination on who could vote and who couldn't. The 19th brought the right under federal protection.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Then why isn't gay marriage allowed in all states?

[Meiko]

6. Good question

I wished I had an answer. Maybe some of our DU scholars smarter than me can help you out.

[TheWraith]

8. Because the SCOTUS hasn't ruled on it yet.

And because laws are invariably bent and shaped by people who want to avoid them. Case in point, it took almost a hundred years between the establishment of the 14th amendment and its actual application to black people.

[tkmorris]

11. You just explained why your post #1 was demonstrably incorrect

Thanks.

[Cerridwen]

5. Section 2.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

That section was used in many states to rescind the franchise that was slowly expanding for women. It was the first use of the word "male" in any piece of the constitution and it was used to justify discrimination against women just as surely as defining slaves as "3/5"ths human would be used against blacks; regardless of their "free" or "slave" state.

I believe this is also the amendment that has been used to justify the "personhood" of the legal contrivance known as "corporation."

[Angelshare1]

7. Puke

Right now your stomache is full of puke. You just think about that.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. Oh look. We have a semi literate troll in our midst

Go back and tell them you really had us going. After you're finished with that, start looking up each word in your post until you find the one you weren't able to spell correctly. Run along now, time is wasting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Actually, Angelshare has been a member since 2009.

Low post count notwithstanding, this poster is not a troll...

Until proven, anyway.

[Plucketeer]

13. I'd like to know how THEY (Angelshare1) know

I have a "stomache" - that's full of puke - and further, where I might FIND it so I could confirm it's contents!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. He's not technically correct...

It really isn't puke till (or if) you throw it up!

[Plucketeer]

16. IS it safe to assume

that watching a Mitt Romney ad would convert said contents to such???

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. It would be for me!

[sudopod]

17. kind of like meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids, eh? nt

[Plucketeer]

19. So you're saying that technically

I might be suffering hemmorites???

[sudopod]

20. lolz nt

[progressoid]

10. Ummm, no.

It's not puke until it exits your stomache (sic) via your mouth.

Hope you are enjoying the interwebs.

[jp11]

15. Guns aren't protected by a constitutional amendment try again.