"In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases
demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death . . . They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right." –Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015 Opponents of the opinion in the excerpt most likely would cite which provision of the Constitution?
They would cite the fourteenth amendment, which states that the prohibition of interracial marriages is prohibited and does not cite same-sex marriages.
Explanation:
The text shown in the question above refers to the right that the constitution of persons who have been legally married within the country. Thus, if a homosexual couple has been legally married, no state can prevent them from enjoying the conjugal rights that the constitution allows. However, those who oppose this type of thinking claim that the constitution does not support or protect same-sex marriages, and these marriages are unconstitutional, since the fourteenth amendment, which refers to marriages, only covers interracial and does not, at any time, cite homosexual marriages.
