Unlike the ACA decision earlier this week, it didn’t beat the spread as Bender would say. I knew the odds favored a ruling to do the morally right thing since we’ve only had legal interracial marriages for over a generation. Fun fact, most voters weren’t keen on interracial unions during the halcyon days of St. Reagan.
Of course, the naysayers will start using their flawed arguments about how poly-whatever marriages be legal, marrying siblings, marrying pets, etc., will be pushed forward. It’s always hilarious to hear that spiel from Mormons who used to practice “celestial marriages,” or what the rest of called, Joseph Smith can’t keep it in his pants. To those assholes I say give it a rest. Firstly, marriage is to one person and in some cases, like Reagan…at a time. Next up, a person. As much as I adore my cats, I know by law they’re classified as property so they can’t inherit property let alone get married. Bigamy and other laws remain constitutional. You can count on gay people to agree on this, they get jealous and believe in commitment too. The sibling thing? There’s a stretch and once again the Conservatives self-destruct with the Duggan debacle. To close, we’re far, far away from having to sweat robots and/or AI.
Now comes the hard part. My adopted home has a recalcitrant governor who has ratcheted up the persecuted Christian narrative. Please. No one wants to have a wedding in a congregation hostile to them. Plus nobody else’s marriage is at risk unless they’re star-bellied sneeches. You can always count on the Conservatives to keep pushing the zero-gain myth of how somebody is going to lose when another group gains the same rights. If it were sports, yes. Every team being awarded a trophy does defeat the point of competition. With real life, not a chance.
Onward to my fellow Americans inheriting this conundrum the rest of us have struggled with for decades.