Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

“Just who do we think we are?”[1] This was Chief Justice Roberts’ response to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, declaring, “The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when…

Proponents of homosexuality note that society has evolved in its understanding of what is socially acceptable. They argue that the taboo against same-sex marriage is the modern equivalent of America’s former taboo against inter-racial marriages. Is this a valid argument? Same–sex marriages and inter-racial marriages cannot be equated. This is a clear case of comparing…