“No
longer may this liberty be denied,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote
for the majority in the historic decision. “No union is more profound
than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity,
devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people
become something greater than once they were.”
Marriage
is a “keystone of our social order,” Justice Kennedy said, adding that
the plaintiffs in the case were seeking “equal dignity in the eyes of
the law.”[...]
The
court’s four more liberal justices joined Justice Kennedy’s majority
opinion. Each member of the court’s conservative wing filed a separate
dissent, in tones ranging from resigned dismay to bitter scorn.
In dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the Constitution had nothing to say on the subject of same-sex marriage.
“If
you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who
favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s
decision,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Celebrate the achievement of a
desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of
commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But
do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.”
In
a second dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia mocked the soaring language of
Justice Kennedy, who has become the nation’s most important judicial
champion of gay rights.
“The
opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is
egotistic,” Justice Scalia wrote of his colleague’s work. “Of course the
opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.”
Yet another sickening act by the supreme court that will take America to a new low.
ReplyDelete“The opinion is couched in a style that is as
ReplyDeletepretentious as its content is egotistic,” Justice Scalia wrote of his
colleague’s work. “Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often
profoundly incoherent.”
I had to check my dictionary to
appreciate Judge Scalia’s words. The Bible is clear:
The Lord God said, “It is not
good for man to be alone; I will make a fitting helper for him.” And the Lord
God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, and
brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man
called each living creature, that would be its name. And the man gave names to
all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to all the wild beasts; but for
Adam no fitting helper was found. So the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon the
man; and, while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at
that spot. And the Lord God fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man
into a woman; and He brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This one at
last Is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called Woman,
For from man was she taken.” Hence a man leaves his father and mother and
clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh (Genesis 2:18-24).