It begs the question as to why the state has any interest in marriage in the first place. If the ruling of the supremes is carefully followed. There should be no benefits to being married, including those offered by the IRS, the protections of spousal testimony, or division of property at dissolution.
In other words, trial attorneys could stand to loose millions.
Watch it. Them's fightin words.
The purpose of just government is to promote the Common Good, or "the General Welfare," as it's referred to in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Family law exists to protect families --especially children.
Children have been missing from the "marriage" debate since the debate began, because that is how the Left wanted to frame the issue. Their semantic sleight of hand worked.
Marriage has two concomitant purposes, the begetting and raising of children and the unity of the spouses. Statistically, children of divorce, i.e., fatherless children, suffer a much higher rate of poverty and other ills.
The State should work to preserve families. Until the sixties, that's the way family law worked. Divorces were contestable. There were laws against adultery and fornication.
This particular social experiment has been a complete disaster.