Okay, what do you guys think equal protection means? You like to get bogged down in semantics about rights/privileges/etc., well what does the equal protection clause mean to you ppl, then? I've given my interpretation, I said it means every individual gets equal rights, the only exceptions being when they conflict with other constitutional rights (which do include tenth amendment unwritten rights, the tenth amendment plainly says there are additional unwritten rights). The equal protection clause says that if men can marry women, then women can marry women. How is that not the case? What is the equal protection clause, if its not a clause that says the government have to treat individuals the same?
There are currently gender discriminatory rules which SCOTUS does not allow due to the equal protection clause: gender separate schools, gender-specific voting rights, etc. Meanwhile, SCOTUS has allowed certain gender discriminatory rules because those rules were necessary due to OTHER constitutional rights: gender-specific bathrooms are based on the right to privacy (4th amendment), association, liberty (which includes bodily privacy). Gender-specific sex education involves the same rights. Only allowing men to marry women violates the plain meaning of the equal protection, just like gender-specific bathrooms; unlike gender-specific bathrooms, however, a bigoted marriage policy is not necessitated by other constitutional rights. It just violates the equal protection clause and that's that.
But go ahead and scream at me for being a communist who doesn't belong here, and make sure to ignore the constitution entirely when making your case. You know, cuz acknowledging the equal protection clause makes someone a communist.
