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Everybody within US jurisdiction is Constitutionally protected under the 14th... so I would suppose same sex couples are protected under the 14th just about as much as two 12 year olds wanting to marry, especially if groups of 12 year olds and their advocates had been pushing this silliness as long as homosexuals have been pushing theirs.
And the 14th allows for states to give justification as to why a law is in place if the state can show a legitimate state interest is furthered by having a certain law in place, as they can when it comes to 12 year olds being treated differently from adults. That is how the law actually works. I realize that it doesn't work with your personal bias against gays, but that is how it is. This is considered reasonable by a majority of people. Otherwise the 14th really would be a useless Amendment because a state could simply say "yes, we treat everyone the same in this way" or it would be an Amendment that overturned most of our laws because almost every law treats someone differently than someone else.