When you quote Jude as you have so often, the issue is religious as well. Quit cut and pasting and meet me in the bull ring so we can have a discussion on transparency, yours and mine.
You have offered no compelling reason that does not also include hetero failure when it comes to protection of children.
You mean over at the "should gay marriage be forced on churches" thread?
Here we are discussing secular laws. I know the difference. You want to make it about religion right now because my secular points are kicking your ass. You're such a weasel. I mean, really. You are. It's just out there now.
What right does the fed have to violate its own mandates in Windsor 2013 for states' "unquestioned authority" on the choice about gay marriage or not, to impose a situation where states are forced to incentivize any marriage that guarantees children within it to be missing one of their blood parents/the complimentary gender-as-role-model 100% of the time?
The fed is going to tell untold numbers of future American children, "sorry, we are removing states' rights to protect your bests interests and we are now dictating to them a completely unexplored and unknown venue in which children will be thrust to grow in their formative years to adulthood as a new institution...as guinea pigs"..."we'll just hope you can wing-it with the unknown but likely bad product of this new, forced cult value".
That's not really fair and true though as "unknown". We've already been given little glimpses into that foreboding crystal ball haven't we? Thomas Lobel, the plight of children of single parent homes where one blood parent/complimentary role model is missing 100% of the time..
We already know this "experiment" won't fare well for untold millions of future children.
You don't like the concept of "future children" do you Jake? You'd like the focus to not even be on the larger segment of children without a blood parent in their home 100% of the time. You want to narrow that focus way way way down, at the expense of the vast majority of children who stand to be adversely-affected by this SCOTUS decision pending. You want this to ONLY be about that tiny tiny fraction of children known as "those children living with gays now and how they'll suffer if their parents cannot rewrite the foundation of the word marriage"... the tens, hundreds of millions or even billions of future children otherwise be damned.