To be fair, there are more holes in the tax code than the stankiest swiss cheese so really only dumb rich people are discriminated against. Mittens paid less ot the fed in terms of % than I did. Well not last year because I did actually get to use some deductions but most other years.
I believe the US Constitution is a document containing guidelines that must be interpreted, as all text must be. You believe the US Constitution is immutable received-wisdom. Hence, impasse.
Obviously equal protection applies to things—marriage having been interpreted as one of those things—and is not simply a nebulous idea disconnected from people, their decisions, their institutions, et cetera. Nonetheless, as I stated, I wouldn't really have a problem with the US governmental generally removing "marriage" from the list of things about which it speaks.
