Alan Keyes is wrong, as a simple search and read of any news articles from the time of the ruling will prove.
When the court ruled, we all knew what it meant. Anybody who now suggests that the court’s ruling was meaningless is re-writing history, poorly, and with little sense of logic.
Yes, there is a world where everything is exactly as conservatives wish it was, it’s called fantasyland, and we don’t live there, we live in the real world where facts matter.
For the sake of discussion, we should separate the actual ruling from what the media said about it. We all know what the media want, irrespective of reality, so we should expect their reporting to be biased in favor of gay marriage.