The Constitution does not put restrictions on marriage, and should have no business doing so. Essentially the rationale of "legitimacy" in marriage is a cultural issue born from the minds and religous or other convictions of individual citizens. Mandating it at a Federal level flies into the teeth of the whole concept of individual freedoms, and makes the national charter into a goddamned theocracy willing to impose shallow moral judgements on its entiore citizenry out of purblind shortsighted bigotry.

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