Excellent analysis, we should all strive to understand why we are losing and learn rather than just whine and blame others. Even a lousy team wins when there is little or weak defense.
I’m not so sure it would have made a difference. Once Lawrence v. Texas established a right to sodomy (which the MSM denied that SCOTUS actually claimed such - although it basically did), the case was lost.
For as stridently worded as Kennedy’s DOMA decision was, I’m not sure any argument would have impressed him. I’m pretty sure he made the decision first then heard the argument.