This should be interesting ...
Could be like peeling the layers of an onion - theres always another one underneath.
6 Catholics, 3 Jews - might depend on the degree of their orthodoxy as to how they rule. They could rule same-sex “civil unions” as legal - but that marriage is a religious tenet. If they do, then all civil ceremoonies [heterosexual and gay] would have to be considered “civil unions”. Although, previous civil marriages might be grandfathered in.
As far as DOMA - if the Court rules that same-sex marriages are “civil unions”, it might also rule that Congress has the right to restrict DOMA to “marriages” as far as the disbursement of federal funds and benefits is concerned.
Then, there is the “full faith and credit” clause of the Constitution. If “civil unions” are allowed, do states that do not recognize them have to honor the “civil unions” of the states that do?
Food for thought ...
As a libertarian I would be inclined to support gay marriage and legal pot. It’s not my business. Live and let live.
Then I watched the statist, leftist, progressive or whatever central planners call themselves today. I don’t like who is on their side.
These are the same authoritarians who want to take our, in no particular order:
Guns
Fireworks
Money
Cigarettes
School lunches
Lightbulbs
Plastic bags
But somehow they think they are for freedom because they will let people kill their unborn children and normalize anal sex between men as a social norm?
They can go straight to Hell/liberal state.