Despicable

There is no other way to describe what the Supreme Court has done with regard to gay marriage, however predictable this latest outrage might have been. The issue never was about whether gays could marry, no more than in other cases where the issue was not about abortion, flag burning, prayer in school, sodomy, or anything else the Court made sanctimonious pronouncements about. Instead, the issue was WHO DECIDES, and there is nothing in the Constitution that strips the states of their discretion over these matters. The Supreme Court has steadily, and once again, committed treason by stealing the awesome power of amendment away from the people and claiming that power for the central government. And make no mistake, this is amendment rather than "interpretation," for there is no possible way to read the Constitution as compelling us all to endorse gay marriage. The people who fought and died to establish this country -- or who fought and died to preserve it, as is the official narrative of Lincoln's war -- would have puked their guts out if they knew their sacrifices had been to enable this.

At the end of the day, the Supreme Court does not have the power to amend the Constitution, so this decision is as worthless as the paper it's written on. The decision does not resolve the issue, no more than Dred Scott resolved the issue of chattel slavery. Since the Constitution is supreme -- over and above the noxious individuals sitting on the Court -- it is the prerogative of every true American to disregard what the Court has perpetrated and go on living life as the law and our conscience dictate. Salvation comes from within, not from without, especially in times like these.

God speed.

EDIT:

I fully expect that we will soon witness lawsuits claiming a fundamental right to polygamy and incest, regardless of the Constitution and the destructive impact of these practices. The mere desire to do it is justification enough, in this feral time we inhabit. 

SECOND EDIT:

Justice Thomas is the only one of the bunch who notices perhaps the largest defect with the legal challenge: nobody has restricted homosexuals from doing anything. There is no government force against homosexuals that the Court is stepping in to prevent; quite to the contrary, the Court is unleashing government force against the rest of us to compel us all to celebrate and endorse homosexual relationships. The vast majority of the citizenry are under attack, not homosexuals, who at worst were denied a benefit rather than a right. It is the majority that is being denied its rights. I've made this point numerous times, and it's shocking that only one of the supposedly nine greatest legal minds in the country has mentioned it.