Gay marriae should not be acknowledged by the Federal Goveronment

The United States Supreme Court has ruled fourteen times that marriage is a fundamental right of all (adult) individuals [1]. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It provides that state courts are bound by the supreme law. Where there is conflict between federal and state law, the federal law must be applied. Even state constitutions are subordinate to federal law [2].The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868. It states:No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [3]. The 14th Amendment marked a large constitutional shift, which specifically inhibited the state's rights to discriminate as freely.The U.S. Supreme Court first applied this standard to marriage in Loving v. Virginia in 1967, when SCOTUS struck down a Virginia law banning interracial marriage. The court ruled that Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute violated both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment [4].The Due Process Clause says that states may not deprive persons of life, liberty, or property without due process of law [5]. This essentially means the laws on record will be scrutinized for legitimacy in order to ensure people's rights are being recognized and protected. Whereas the law used to uphold outdated and immoral policy in the past, due process considers both the law as-written as well as the spirit of the law. Indeed we have made many adjustments throughout history; recognizing black people as free citizens and giving women voting/property rights are just some examples. The Equal Protection Clause looks to guarantee that all people would have rights equal to those of other citizens [6]. Perry v. Schwarzenegger was a 2010 federal court decision in which Judge Vaughn R. Walker cited Loving v. Virginia to conclude that the Constitutional right to marry protects an individual's choice of marital partner [7]. Afterward the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this decision along with a handful of other cases. This makes sense if you extend the same logic of due process and equal protection for gay couples. SCOTUS ruled that there was no reason to exclude gay couples from the same protection as heterosexual couples in similar relationships, which SCOTUS has every legal right to do. The 14th Amendment posits that freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.Gay Marriage is now the Constitutionally valid law of the land thanks to the 14th Amendment and the Supremacy Clause. [1] http://afer.org...[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu...[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu...[4] http://www.supremecourt.gov...[5] https://www.law.cornell.edu...[6] https://www.law.cornell.edu...[7] http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov...