MARRIAGE EQUALITY NATIONWIDE

[SteelCurtain]

I disagree that a woman can get into most fraternities providing they meet all the other qualifications. Just like you stated, for every organization for males, there must also be one for females. Fine. You're right about what the SCOTUS declared, and in doing that they redefined marriage. The constitution doesn't declare that everyone must be allowed to be married, but rather that everyone must be allowed equal rights under the law. They have no more moral right to redefine an institution than a university would have to ban any fraternity from the campus because they will not accept women, since sororities are equally accepted and afforded the same status. If they wanted to allow the creation of fraternal organizations of mixed sexes, then that would a much better solution.

A fraternal order is a term that includes sororities. Greek Fraternities and Sororities are clubs, and as such can choose their membership. It is not a right to be able to join a Fraternity.

Marriage is a right, that the Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote about in the unanimous decision for the aforementioned Loving v. Virginia:

Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

Are you saying that Earl Warren was wrong in his interpretation of the Constitution?