Here's me, with the long hair and casual clothes I had in college, discussing the Fourteenth Amendment with the much better-groomed, better-dressed Tom Palmer from the Cato Institute.
He was waxing eloquent about the "privileges or immunities" of "persons" guaranteed by the 14th. I told him I was pretty sure that the "privileges or immunities" clause only applied to "citizens," and that it was "due process" and "equal protection" – whatever that means – which applied to all "persons."
Disagreeing with me, he took out his Cato pocketbook Constitution, and had to admit I was right. :) But then he said it doesn't matter, because the feds still have the authority to supercede state sodomy laws.
I'm assuming the Fourteenth Amendment also guarantees the rights of Iraqis to be blown to bits, but that's another story.
