Agreed, and Kentucky isn’t the only state affected. Furthermore, if there is no legal reference for marriage, is divorce, dissolution or annulment of a “marriage” possible?
If there is no longer a reference definition of marriage, then there could be no reference for divorce. The courts would have no standing to do anything other than maybe intervene in child custody disputes.
The SCOTUS really screwed the pooch with this decision. They did not consider the implications of their political decision before foisting upon an unsuspecting electorate.
Or maybe the destruction of the entire institution of marriage was their goal all along. In that case, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
I would imagine that SCOTUS will act by forcing other bodies to change the state laws. The KY Supreme Court will be forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to force the KY legislature to change the marriage laws to conform with the SCOTUS decision. Remember, the MA court ruling forced that MA legislature and mitt to allow homosexual marriages.
Fortunately, KY is not MA. The KY legislature could conform by not providing for any new marriage licenses. Yielding to the Feds and sodomites would be a disaster. I don’t believe that the SCOTUS decision forces states to have a marriage law.