Should gay marriage be legal all over the United States?

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding and misrepresenting of the cases involving the 14th Amendment, which had to do with questions of discrimination against a race of people, the Black People. Gays are not a race; but, a group of people that choose to engage in sexual activities that are not normal, but protected, i.e., whatever Gays do in the privacy of their homes is protected as long as no federal or state laws are violated. Here are the cases on the 14th Amendment’s Equality Clause. 1868 The 14th Amendment is adopted. The Amendment includes the Equal Protection Clause and declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled in Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883) that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional. Since both partners were punished equally, it said, there was no violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This became known as the “equal discrimination” or “equal application” exception. Tony Pace was a black man, and Mary J. Cox, a white woman, were indicted under Section 4189 of the Alabama Code that banned interracial marriage: In 1896, the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were separate but equal. This case involved Blacks being required to ride in separate railroad train passenger cars. So, these laws discriminated against blacks, a race of people, but, the Supreme Court ruled that there was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equality Clause Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/plessy-v-ferguson#ixzz2QSR03m98 Then came Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) which is one of the Restrictive Covenant Cases. This had to do with barring people from owning or renting real property on racial grounds, i.e., you could refuse to sell a house or rent an apartment to a black person. The Court held that state judicial enforcement of agreements barring persons from ownership or occupancy of real property on racial grounds is forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also determined that enforcement of racial covenants by federal courts violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Then came Brown v. Board of Education (1954) were blacks were forced to go to separate all black public schools. (1954) U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction. The court declared separate educational facilities to be inherently unequal, thus reversing its 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown ruling was limited to public schools, but it was believed to imply that segregation is not permissible in other public facilities. Guidelines for ending segregation were presented and school boards were advised to proceed with all deliberate speed. Thurgood Marshall. Again, you will note that this case is about discrimination against a race of people, the black race. Gay folks are not a race, but a group of people that practice a perverse life style. The fourteenth Amendment on equal protection does not protect sexual preferences. Finally, we get to the Supreme Court Case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), which was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored." The Supreme Court's unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional, overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. So the 14th Amendment is about equal protecting for a race, in these cases the Black Race. There are a few other cases involving other races, but most are about the black race. Again, being Gay is not a RACE, it is a SEXUAL preference, which is not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Comparing Gay rights to discrimination against a race of people, the Blacks, is total nonsense. Our society should not be forced to accept the rantings of a perverse group of people called Gays that engage in dangerous sexual practices and lifestyles that are harmful to society. A group that is trying to create the illusion that gay behavior is acceptable and should be emulated by everyone, even kids. Most Americans will not stand for this nonsense; hopefully, the Supreme Court will decide that Gays are not a race and are not entitled to anything more than anyone else which Gays already have, and that marriage is between a man and a woman. This will ensure that messed up radical states can’t pass gay marriage laws, and for the States that have passed gay marriage laws, those laws will instantly be null and void. If the court does not do that and leaves it up to the States that is good too; because most states, including California, the most liberal state in the Union, are against Gay Marriage.