And every vote counts in our courts too. The Mass. and Calif. decisions in their Supreme Courts were each 4-3 decisions. One vote decided to alter the basic unit of civilization.
Some compare the gay marriage cases to the Brown vs. Board of Education. But Brown was a unanimous decision that the concept of separate but equal was unconstitutional. Here, we see divided courts deciding not whether a law treats people equally, or conflicts with constitutional standards, but decide to change the legal definition of a legal term. Marriage is already defined in the law, and the courts are deciding to change the definition of marriage.
If they were intellectually honest, they would concede that monogamous marriage has always been a man and a woman, and they would admit that they want to change the definition. They would admit that marriage was not devised as a way to discriminate against the homosexual community.
Brown is used as a knockout argument, even by many to the right of center, for all judicial activism aimed at helping out anyone with a grievance.
It is quite easy to counter that argument, but it involves a level of subtlety and attention span completely beyond those who sanctify the courts (and the press) in the religion of liberalism.
Exactly, and especially for the SCOTUS. If Obama were elected he would set this court back decades. Right now we have several lower court judge appointees backed up in committee by the Democrats.
Just how is marriage discrimination “against” the homosexual population? Marriage consists of a man and a woman. There has never been a legal stricture against a homosexual man marrying a woman or a lesbian marrying a man.