No, civil marriage was just destroyed by the Left. It cannot be salvaged. Next up the battle to protect marriage from the Left. The gutsy Republicans (and some Dems) will take the position that marriage is a first amendment right of churches only. Anyone else using the term marriage is referring to "civil marriage" which now means nothing or anything.
Fight the battle to protect marriage and at the same time expand civil marriage to cover anything and everything. If I were in Alabama I would instruct local officials to hand out civil marriage licenses to any two animate objects that walk in the door. In Californica it can be a woman and a tree (I think it already has). All protected under the law. If the tree dies, the woman gets all the firewood.
Thank you for a sorely needed chuckle among the apocalyptic disaster facing us.
There is no limiting principle in Kennedy’s opinion that would limit “marriage” to two people. In fact I am thinking that before I pass I will “marry” one of my grandkids so they may get some of the vast amount of SS money that I have yet to tap. A large sum from my pocket since I was both employer and employee most of my adult life.
Two problems here:
1) You left it open for another battle on the # (two animate)
2) The tree is INanimate
Have a nice day :D
Then this free republic cannot be salvaged.
It is impossible to fulfill any of the stated purposes of the U.S. Constitution without this vital, fundamental CIVIC institution.