People have no right to protect their culture
Court majority invoked the 14th Amendment . . . apparently 19th century America that passed the 14th amendment understood it as invalidating laws and presumptions then in existence in every state respecting marriage as an institution between one man and one woman.
States be damned
We are still digesting commentary about the decision and will supply links and excerpts from those we found particularly worthy. The decision was 5 to 4 with Chief Justice Roberts joining Alito, Scalia and Thomas as dissenters to the majority opinion.
Roberts did what is said to be an unusual activity by reading his dissent after the majority opinion written by Kennedy was announced. Frankly we consider it grandstanding. We have no idea how someone who bent over backwards to do a latter-day interpretation and legislate from the bench in the Obamacare decision handed down yesterday now, finds that traditions and words (or lack of words), mean something after all. From the initial AP story:
The four dissenting justices each filed a separate opinion explaining their views.
“But this court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in dissent. Roberts read a summary of his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in nearly 10 years as chief justice.
Square those words with his enthusiasm for rewriting plain language of Obamacare and rejecting established statutory interpretation to come up with ways to save Obamacare from itself. We welcome his marriage vote but think him goofy. More brief analysis, excerpts and links to come.
DLH and R Mall
