I think that’s certainly the case for many people, including some I worked alongside for several years. The framers never said “gay marriage” or “interracial marriage,” but following the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the terms “due process” and “equal protection,” which basically mean (in super-simplified terms) that all people are entitled to the full protection of the law (no picking and choosing which laws to apply), and that laws should apply to everyone equally (no picking and choosing which people they apply to). There’s a whole family of Supreme Court rulings that affirm rights not specifically called out in the Constitution. The solution to this alarming new heading may lie, in part, in a ship full of gay pirates.
How concerned should we be? Very, I think - but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do. Constitutional law is a slow ship to turn, but it seems as though the country’s changing course with unusual swiftness, and with the impending ruling on abortion we may soon find numerous other rights that we thought were safe tossed overboard.
