Jeez. Just looking at this snippet shows what complete garbage this decision was. It had no basis anywhere in law or precedence. Just made up out of thin air. With a few paragraphs the entire history and purpose of marriage is erased within the borders of the US.
The only place the courts had any jurisdiction whatsoever was to discuss the contractual aspects of marriage. Tax policy, contractual rights, social security rights, etc. The court would be perfectly in it’s means to interpret that any two people could share the same policies and privileges provided to married couples. They had absolutely no ability to redefine it in this way.
From Obergefell:
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
Have you ever heard such mush?
By the way, the Constitution does not grant rights.