On the larger playing field, with many competing interests, it's imperative to achieve a just decision without necessarily inflaming a significant portion of the country.
Kennedy's opinion achieves the result you summarized, but in a much more sophisticated manner. Take it for the major win that it is.
“Evidently, you missed the point of my Big Mac analogy. For you, it must be HFCs and sawdust meat to constitute food.”
No I didn’t miss it, just found it inane. My preference is for simple food whose ingredient are readily apparent, not some “sophisticated” French cuisine whose main ingredient is shrouded in some unknown sauce, and it turns out to be a slug.
By defining the issue clearly, (as I did), it would have removed all the confusion as to what the debate is about. and it would have only inflamed the most rabid gay mafia activists. Most sane homosexual think that these activists are not doing them any favors.
I’m obviously happy with the decision, but it still left things in a fog in most people’s mind in that it’s seen as a “narrow” decision. A step in the right direction.