14th amendment

In an interview, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia says the Constitution doesn't promise protections for women and gays. The ultra-conservative judge says the Constitution doesn't require discrimination of minorities, but that it certainly doesn't prohibit it. "Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant," Scalia said of the 14th amendment protecting women. "Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws." 

A high school student asked Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli about the constitutionality of his letter suggesting that state universities did not have to establish antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians at a forum Friday at Liberty University. The attorney general replied that his advice would not be a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because "the category of sexual orientation would never have been contemplated by the people who wrote and voted for and passed the 14th Amendment."

Equal rights for everyone, including gay and lesbian people wanting to marry, might already be encompassed in the Constitution, in the 14th Amendment. 

A lesbian couple from Honolulu is suing the state of Hawaii for the right to marry after being told they could not file for a marriage license by the state health department. Natasha N. Jackson, and Janin Kleid filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Wednesday, claiming that their rights to due process and equal protection as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution were violated.

A lesbian attorney and her partner of 14 years are taking aim at Puerto Rico's refusal to recognize the couple's 2004 Massachusetts marriage.

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Same-sex marriage in the Sunshine State could soon be determined by the state's Supreme Court.

Philip and Sandra Unruh have asked a federal court to allow them to intervene in a Kansas marriage equality case because the couple fears they will lose property if same-sex couples are allowed to marry.

In a candid interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, President Obama said he couldn't imagine a scenario where a state's ban on marriage equality was constitutional.

BREAKING: The 2004 law barring same-sex couples in Michigan from marrying has been struck down by a federal judge.

Enemies of LGBTQ equality tend to also fight racial and gender equality. Activist and California State Senate candidate Sandra Fluke says history tells us how everyone can work to be equal.

A Texas state appeals court in Dallas rejected a decision by a lower court that a gay couple who legally married in Massachusetts could get divorced in Texas. State District Judge Tena Callahan ruled, in October of 2009, that the couple had the right to legally end the marriage and the state's same-sex marriage ban was a violation of the federal constitutional right to equal protection. The 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas reversed the decision on Tuesday, and instructed Callahan dismiss the case.

A federal judge says he'll decide shortly whether Kansas counties can license same-sex marriages, although state officials have asked him to avoid ruling.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's plans to take marriage equality directly to the state supreme court don't match a recent court decision on the issue.

The former University of Chicago law professor told The New Yorker he believes the U.S. Constitution includes a right to same-sex marriage.

This is the first federal judge to find that Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, approved by voters in 2008 as Amendment 2, violates the U.S. Constitution.