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This is the first comment I've ever really wanted to click disagree on. Is there a place to discuss this on this board?
Probably the politics section but, let me be clear, this isn't a gay bashing comment. The point was courts, even the highest one, disregard the letter of the law for any number of reasons (politics, policy, garden variety corruption). The gay marriage ruling is as good an example as you can find. The right to gay marriage, quite clearly, is not spelled out in the constitution; no society in history (even the ones that openly tolerated homosexuality) ever recognized gay marriage; there is no precedent or any reasonable interpretation of the constitution for such a thing. The court did it anyway.
Again, nothing against gays and, frankly, laws recognizing civil unions would have given gays just about everything they wanted politically. My point is that the ruling was dumb and not based on the constitution or legal precedent.