What the major pundits have missed on this debate -- even though Justice Scalia addressed it head on by warning of a major social "disruption" resulting from this ruling (to understand the veiled meaning of that warning one must read Fukuyama's book "The Great Disruption") -- is that the last such FUNDAMENTAL so-called "states' right" (really the right and liberty interest of the citizens of those states) "resolved" in this nation was slavery. The "resolution" required a civil war. More importantly, it was "resolved" -- constitutionally -- by an AMENDMENT rather than a judicial DIKTAT. The individual state governments ratified a 14th amendment giving the Feds the power to regulate on issues affecting the former slaves (expanded post facto to regulate on "race" generally). If the LEFT wants to pass an amendment prohibiting all regulation of moral and social issues as they affect interactions within the home they should just try to pass an Amendment (which we MUST resist). However, ALL -- conservatives and liberals who still value liberty should firmly resist the extreme LEFT's temptation to create a JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP EFFECTIVELY CONTROLLED BY A SINGLE IDEOLOGY/PARTY NOMENKLATURA.
For Fukuyama's book...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068484530X/002-0464355-7759202?vi=glance