The devil you say? [Joke son, I say joke]
Well yes. Quintessentially devil in M.O. — not just your generic wicked move.
I will ascend, I will surpass...
And now we have a newly minted meaning of “marriage.” Civil unions were not cutting it, even though virtually everybody was doing them by this point.
As far as the Soopremes are concerned they could edict it legal for someone to marry a ham sandwich.
They is, after all, the Soopremes.
“Civil unions were not cutting it, even though virtually everybody was doing them by this point.”
For what it’s worth, the vast majority of states were not doing civil unions (and many of the state marriage amendments explicitly prohibited them), and civil unions were not legally equivalent to marriages.