in many peoples’ opinion, the Obama court illegally amended the Constitution in its order to states to license same sex marriage against reason and common sense, and against both state and federal law and court precedent. Licensing is a form of regulation. Courts cannot order states to license something without any underlying law and reason. Courts in the past have struck down laws as unconstitutional, eg, law banning abortion, but in this case, the court did not strike down any law, they changed the regulation and the reasons behind it. If marriage is everything, then it is nothing. Can the courts argue that because old people get Medicare and Social Security, then everybody has to get Medicare and SS , aka, equal protection? What if a conservative court argued “equal protection” in tax rates and imposed a flat tax.....or else decided that lawmakers have to treat BIG business and SMALL business the same under the law? Liberals won’t like that! The reason for licensing marriage was to regulate sexuality by discourging promiscuity & homosexuality while promoting and institutionalizing heterosexual monogamy, because it is important to know or be reasonably certain that the husbands of the wives also were fathers of the children......and unwed mothers did not have protection of a marriage contract or standing to sue for paternity. There was no reason for the state to license same sex marriage because homosexuality was considered intrinsically disorder behavior not to be promoted or encouraged, but discouraged by exclusion. If courts believe that heterosexuality and homosexuality in couplings deserve the same treatment, there remedy should have been to strike down marriage licensing as unconstitutional, not to illegal amend the Constitution to change the regulation and its purpose. After all, what is the government interest in licensing serial marriages and no fault divorces? Better to have no marriage licensing than licensing serial marriage and homosexual mariage, which serves no purpose that is good? The miscreant Obama court could not and did not even address the fact of marriage law promoting “couplings” of people. Why should government license couplings and not groups? and just because the law licensing opposite sex couplings is not reason or right for the court to order states to license discriminatory same sex couplings. After all.....opposite sex marriages promote diversity, whereas same sex marriages promote sameness. One can understand why this woman would be fired, but no sued. The couple was no damaged .....but the rogue Obama court damaged human civilization
You nailed it.
Of course the govt has no business sanctioning any marriage.
She is now a bigot in the eyes of the law to remedy the stigmatization of gays in society.
It’s the usual, they can label us deplorable, racist, domestic terrorists, cultists, conspiracy theorists, threat to democracy stupid and on and on but call them hate crime words and risk freedom. It’s insane.
It’s too bad that our “courts” are partisan, and no longer think about the things you addressed in your post.