All because Anthony Kennedy thought that he knew better what a marriage should be than anybody else who had ever lived over 10,000 years of recorded human history.
These consequences were fully intended. Kennedy’s comments in his opinion are a giant, neon tell.
Everyone says....precedence....BUT 200 years before Roe....we had precedence....You didn’t kill babies in the womb. It was a crime....called murder.
“...the Court’s decision mandated same sex marriage in all 50 states...”
I question that the Court’s decision was such a mandate.
The Court declared certain laws unconstitutional. SCOTUS can not legislate so in so far as certain legislation is declared unconstitutional, it must be replaced by new legislation (depending on the wording of the unconstitutional legislation).
In states where there has been no new legislation or no State Constitution revision, there may be no legal basis for marriage. Eliminating the legal basis for marriage is not the same as mandating same sex marriage.
Same thing happened with Lawrence v. Texas many years ago. The majority claimed it would never lead to homosexual marriage as the minority opinion asserted.
Same thing is happening here.
Based on personal experience, the Texas Judicial Commission is a joke. I filed a complaint against a municipal court judge who claimed the “State of Texas” was the complaining witness in a traffic court trial. Problem is there is no person named “The State of Texas” and there no complaint signed by the “The State of Texas”.
Didn’t matter. When the judge asked if I wanted to call any witnesses, I called the “State of Texas” since the judge said that was the complaining witness. Of course,”The State of Texas” wasn’t there. Judge asked me why I did subpoena “The State of Texas”, I responded that there is no such person; and, even if there was, it was not my duty to subpoena a complaining witness.
When I filed a complaint against this Judge for this an many other constitutional violations, I got a letter back from the Commission stating the judge did nothing wrong.
Obergefell in 2015 moved the line on people who believe in traditional marriage. Before the ruling, they were on the legal side of the line. After the ruling, they are now on the illegal side of the line. So now believing in traditional marriage is a thought crime.
And people like to make fun of slippery slope theorists.