“The best possible outcome for religious freedom would be for the court to rule that the U.S. Constitution does not require all states to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples.”
If that is the best case, it’s still pretty grim, in my opinion. Even the states that passed their amendments in the 70-80% ranges would accept ‘gay marriage’ by repealing any marriage amendment left standing within 20 years, if the trend of the popular voting on the issue continues. The ones that only passed their amendments in the 60-70% ranges in the middle of the last decade would be vulnerable to another popular vote before that. The ones that only passed them in 50-60% ranges probably couldn’t pass them again now.
Freegards
Agreed.
At one time, there was an overwhelming consensus that marriage should be a man and a woman. Even many liberals voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
Today, even many younger conservatives, while conservative on other issues, are in favor of homosexual marriage.
Agreed that if states were to vote again on marriage today, the results would be different in a number of states.
We saw a preview of this in 2012, when voters in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington state approved homosexual marriage at the ballot box.