Chief Justice of the United States

[??????????]

I think we can agree to disagree on this issue. I am what they would have called a "strict constitutionalist". Many judges in this country are getting a little out of control allowing Gay Marriage when it's against the law.

[migrendel]

I would simply say that the truly binding law, the Constitution, makes forbidding it illegal, and no Frankfurteresque obsequiousness to legislatures in the name of judicial restraint can change that.

[classical liberal]

What clause makes forbiding it illegal?

[migrendel]

Well, the Equal Protection Clause and the right to privacy, whether found in the Due Process Clauses, the Ninth Amendment, or penumbrae of the Bill of Rights, depending upon your theory.