This is grotesque. The 5th amendment concerns government actions such as stealling your property or throwing you into jail without a fair trial. It has nothing to do with "equal protection
" as in teh 14th amendment. The latter applies only to states and not the federal government. In fact, it empowers Congress to legislate appropriately to enforce the 14th amendment - which it did via DOMA.
In every state where the people have decided the fate of same-sex marriage directly, they have declined to recognize or subsidize it. Only where the judiciary or the legislature denied the people the power to decide has same-sex marriage been imposed. If anything, those states are in violation of the Constitution, and the federal government has an obligation to restore "republican government" in those states (article 4, section 4).
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