Lauren Boebert Says Same-Sex Marriage Bill 'Undermined Masculinity'

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37. Exactly. One problem, you are thinking logically. She can't.

That would be what follows from "the government should not be involved in marriage". If they want to take the legality out of marriage and let it be simply a religious thing then we would lose the tax benefits and other protections offered to married people and not to single people.

The 14th Amendment is about equal protection under the law. An argument that conservatives have been using recently is "There is no right to (name your cause) in the Constitution." Recently Ben Shapiro said, "There is no right for a man and man or woman and woman to get married" Well Ben, there is no right for a man and woman to get married in the Constitution either. So, at this point, if a man and woman can get legally married, and there are special protections under law for that legal marriage, then guess what, the 14th provides for consenting same sex couples to be married and receive those same protections.