I intended to stay away from this, because thinking about it hurts my brain

In the dark days of Nixon, during then times of Carter’s national malaise, even in the Clinton times, I decided the Republic will survive.

With the Supreme Court ruling that overrides state laws against homosexual marriage, I am not so certain.

From the minority:

“… the Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?” – Justice Roberts


“It is striking how much of the majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim of a fundamental right to plural marriage. If ‘[t]here is dignity in the bond between two men or two women who seek to marry and in their autonomy to make such profound choices,’ ante, at 13, why would there be any less dignity in the bond between three people who, in exercising their autonomy, seek to make the profound choice to marry? If a same-sex couple has the constitutional right to marry because their children would otherwise ‘suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser,’ ante, at 15, why wouldn’t the same reasoning apply to a family of three or more persons raising children?” – Roberts

“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.” – Justice Scalia

“In the American legal tradition, liberty has long been understood as individual freedom from governmental action, not as a right to a particular governmental entitlement.” – Justice Thomas

Justice Thomas stressed American history, about which far too many Americans know little, and intend to remain in a closet of ignorance.

The overriding that should have been:

“The question in these cases, however, is not what States should do about same-sex marriage but whether the Constitution answers that question for them. It does not. The Constitution leaves that question to be decided by the people of each State.” – Justice Alito

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/supreme-court-ruling-gay-marriage-a-constitutional-right/