article_snippet.sent: It's an ideal piece of judicial craftsmanship," said Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation, who believes that state bans on same-sex marriage are constitutional.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Jeffrey Sutton "more or less takes each and every argument that the other side has made, and then one by one by one, Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation, who believes that state bans on same-sex marriage are constitutional explains why it doesn't work.
article_snippet.sent: It is "dangerous and demeaning,Sutton Sutton wrote, to the citizenry to assume that only judges "can fairly understand" the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
article_snippet.sent: Sutton pointed  to the drafters and The people views of the 14th Amendment.
article_snippet.sent: Nobody in this case," Sutton wrote, "argues that the people who adopted the Fourteenth Amendment understood the Fourteenth Amendment to require the States to change the definition of marriage.
article_snippet.sent: It's an argument made to enforce the idea that there is no fundamental right to marriage for same-sex couples in the Constitution.
article_snippet.sent: From the founding of the Republic to 2003, every state defined marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman," Sutton wrote, noting that the "Fourteenth Amendment permits, though does not require, States to define marriage that way."
article_snippet.sent: Sutton said that the same-sex marriage bans rationally advance a legitimate government policy.
article_snippet.sent: By creating a status (marriage) and by subsidizing it (e.g. with tax-filing privileges and deductions), the States created an incentive for two people who procreate together to stay together for purposes of rearing offspring.
article_snippet.sent: Sutton said that the States should not be accused of "irrationality," but only the awareness that same-sex couples don't have children in the same way as couples of the opposite sex.
article_snippet.sent: Sutton pushes back on any suggestion that those who oppose same-sex marriage have negative feelings about gay and lesbian couples.
article_snippet.sent: Sutton said that ballot initiatives banning same sex-marriage were not driven by hostility but were passed by "real people who teach our children, create our jobs, and defend our shores.
article_snippet.sent: "the plaintiffs are not political zealots trying to push reform on the plaintiffs fellow citizens, " Daughtrey wrote, but committed same-sex couples seeking equal status.