They should have left this to democracy and to the states.
Supremes force gay marriage upon the states
The justices found that, under the 14th Amendment, states must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and recognize same-sex unions that have been legally performed in other states.
Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
The Supremes have always lied about the law and the constitution, and have done so with great and generally increasing frequency since 1937, when they stopped lying to write conservatism into the law and the constitution and began lying to do that for liberalism.
In most ways I am as pleased with the results as any liberal, though in some not as in the present case.
But I am generally much more unhappy with the method.
On the other hand, there are these key points to remember.
Social life is impossible without coercion, which in turn is impossible without violence.
And coercion is made more palatable and violence less necessary by some of the lies of religion and morality, as well as others, though often coercion and even violence are involved in determining which lies shall be imposed on and by the law, the state, and social institutions, and in daily life.
Culture war occurs when organized partisans seek to coercively impose opposing sets of lies, generally religious or moral, upon the government and thence upon society's major institutions.
Since the mid-20th Century, the liberal lies of the Supremes have been mostly of that sort, concerning race and sex and the laws and institutions related to both.
In many cases including the present case, such rulings by the Supremes have been effects rather than causes of liberal victories in the contemporary culture war within the Occident in general and the US in particular.
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