As the debate over Gay Marriage hits the Supreme Court, we're about to hear a lot more about it. Personally, I think it'll be great when we reach that inevitable day when it's no longer a debate; when two people of the same sex can just wed and no one cares about it. Oddly enough, when I discuss this issue with my more Conservative friends, none of them thinks that day is not coming…and coming soon. They just think that the battle and trying to delay it has ancillary benefits for their achievable goals, most of which are to protect and promote their religion's influence over other public policies.
They all seem to agree with me that the opponents of Gay Marriage have done a pretty lame job of fighting it in the courts, typified by a lead attorney in the defense of California's Proposition 8. As noted in the piece I'm about to link to, he was asked how same-sex wedlock harmed man-woman wedlock and he answered, "Your Honor, my answer is: I don't know." You do something like that in the boxing ring and they accuse you of throwing the fight.
Facing what may be their last chance to stop what they seek to stop, opponents of Gay Marriage are bringing their "A" game to the Supreme Court donnybrook and that means having answers to that question. Pema Levy reports on what some of those answers are.
I have no idea how the highest court in the land will rule and I'm not sure anyone in the media does. Those who follow the Supreme Court closely and predict how its decisions will go have not had a very good track record lately with their forecasts. They often haven't even been right as to which justice represented the deciding vote…so it may not be, as they all seem to be saying, Anthony Kennedy. It wouldn't even surprise me if Scalia and Thomas not only voted for it but seized on that occasion to announce their engagement. (Well, yeah, I guess we can rule that out…)