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It is an attack upon the sovereignty of the States, the USSC has commandeered the legislative process of the States and presumes itself to be the Legislature of the States, it is insult to People of the States.

There may be a legitimate Art IV basis for the USSC declaration that “there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character”, but I dispute this*. This would strike Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.045 Same-sex marriage in another jurisdiction void and unenforceable, it does not touch other provisions of Kentucky's marriage statutes but it does attack Section 233A of their Constitution.

There is no delegation to the Federal government for their regulation of marriage, the power is reserved to the States.

There is no 14th Amend. "equal protection” issue. There is no right to legal recognition of any grouping of persons assembled for any purpose. The people of Kentucky have decided that marriage is between man & woman. The advocates of a novel definition of “marriage” are free to avail themselves of the process prescribed by Kentucky law to change the laws to incorporate a novel description. This in no way inhibits or infringes upon any persons rights of association or restricts their sexual activities.

Comparisons to laws restricting marriage between differing races are groundless. Laws banning interracial marriage did not touch the definition of marriage; unlike this decree which does. Those laws were/are an equal protection violation, not a fundamental redefinition.

The USSC has intruded upon the independent sovereignty of the States. By declaring what the law of each and all of the States shall be** the USSC have made themselves a Super-Legislature of ALL the States collectively as a whole - a Branch of Government which does not exist under the U.S. Constitution! They have acted entirely outside the Constitution. This can not be tolerated.

Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan have acted as legislators, an act infinitely beyond the authority of the Court. They each must be impeached for their lawlessness, abuse of power, and violation of their Oath. They have brought disrepute upon the Court and have sown chaos in the States (Rowan County, Kentucky is not the only place where people refuse to comply). States must defend their people from this radical and illegitimate dictate.

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* Allowing the USSC to alter the well established definition of a word opens Pandora’s Box, there is unlimited chaos if this is allowed.

"Marriage" is not some novel or technical term, it has been understood since time immemorial to be a union of opposite genders.

In regard to "marriage", allowing Judicial alteration of the word to mean anything other than the union of opposite genders means future Judicial alterations must also be allowed. The USSC has rendered the word to be anything THEY desire at their arbitrary WHIM. Allowing this abuse of authority opens the door to “marriage” being any grouping of persons without regard to their age, number, or consanguinity. Obvious consequences are polygamy, incest, child marriage, and pedophilia - all of which are socially destructive - but most importantly: all of which would not be per legislation enacted by the Peoples' representatives, but by the Prerogative of un-accountable, un-appealable Kings ensconced in the USSC.

In general, the USSC has attacked language itself. If the attack is not repelled then the meaning of any word is indeterminate, even if it has been well established for millennia. Once the well established meaning is altered the power of the USSC is unlimited. Anything can be said to be an equal protection violation - or anything else they damn well please.

They imagine themselves Kings. They need to be thrown out on their ass.

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** “The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold - and it now does hold - that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character.” - Obergefell

There is no "fundamental right" to legal recognition of any group of persons assembled for whatever purpose. Here the USSC declares what the law shall be in each and all of the States, making themselves Legislators.