[Tau Food]

If the body politic as a whole goes looie on marriage it will only serve as a lesson on what you get when you put a matter of this degree of spiritual importance in Caesar’s hands. They might CALL it marriage but it ain’t marriage, any more than the ocean is fresh water.

Yes, you've said that perfectly.

Our real powers are limited.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Once the brouhaha over this comes to a more or less steady simmer, I think it will become evident to a lot of Christians that they were putting more faith in their government than it ever deserved.

And in the long term, such a shift in viewpoint will be necessary for the rebuilding of America’s soul, if by God’s grace such a thing should come to pass. God has to let idols get truly rotten sometimes, before people will consent to jettison them.