A Simple Solution to the Mess. Valid or not valid?

For today’s post I would like to present you with a simple solution to the legalization of same-sex marriage controversy that was proposed by a professor of law, Mae Kuykendall.  The post will be pretty much short and to the point.  This is due to a couple of reasons.  One of which being that I would like to draw attention to how simple this solution truly does seem.  Along with this, I would like you as a reader, to sort through your personal thoughts and decide whether you think this solution is valid or not.

Mae Kuykendall is a professor of law at Michigan State University.  When she is not defending a client in the courtroom, she enjoys studying the relationship between the legal definitions of marriage and the evolving usage of the word in society.  Shortly after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage to the public in his inaugural speech, Mae Kuykendall took it upon herself to voice her pro stance beliefs in an article titled “A Way Out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess.”  Her work was welcomed with open arms as it was quickly picked up and published in the notable, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, The New York Times.  Here in this article is where she offers her simple solution.  She claims that the act of same-sex marriage should be considered a fundamental right under the 14^th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

After reading “A Way out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess” I was baffled.  I could not fathom the idea that there is an amendment defending the right of same-sex marriage already set in ink.  So has the answer to this controversy been hiding in the U.S. Constitution all along?  Can it really be that simple?  As my readers, I leave that freedom of thought up to you.