Today the U.S. Supreme Court held in Obergefell v. Hodge (the complete opinion can be read here; the oral arguments here) that marriage is a fundamental right of individual and should be extended to gay couples. This decision on the first sight is a landmark victory for LGBT group in America.
As much as I support this landmark decision, I just cannot agree on the way many articles (set forth at the end of this short article) lambaste and ridicule the dissenting opinions by taking their words out of context. The issue is not a matter of fact, nor a matter of law. It is a matter of politics when the Constitution fails to inform us what marriage means and entails.The SCOTUS majority chose to adopt the consent-based vision of marriage over the traditional conjugal view– the latter one should not be rashly judged as inherently wrong. The decision is nothing more than reflecting the SCOTUS’ understanding that the social mores is ready to expand the scope of marriage to include the concept of “civil union”. The sparse legal analysis therein should be given less weight–it becomes so obvious that the Court tried harder than any time before to rationalize such political decision.
Check them out:
Scalia Said To Ask The Nearest Hippie About Marriage, So We Did
19 Hysterical Passages From Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Dissenters
Antonin Scalia Dissent In Marriage Equality Case Is Even More Unhinged Than You’d Think
Hi thnx for ur comment and encouragement! Blogging indeed takes so much time if u wanna write smth insightful. As u can tell I haven’t updated for a while as my work loads in real life got piled up! Anyways, the techie part of blogging was all done by a close friend. I only do the writing. Hopefully can have another blog piece done soon. Good luck with your blog! Keep me posted if possible 🙂
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