And by 'milk sympathy', you mean enjoy the same rights as everyone else?
Oh, spare me. There is nothing that they're fighting for that is a "right" enjoyed by other people, however much they try to dress it up as such.
Same sex couples weren't fighting for the right to marry like everyone else?
You might want to tell the Supreme Court that. As the Obergefell ruling seems to contradict your assumptions rather elegantly.
No, they aren't. They're fighting for the "right" to marry in a way that no one else does, or can.
Same sex couples fought for the right to marry....just like any other couple. And they won. As demonstrated elegantly by same sex marriage being recognized and legal in 50 of 50 states.
You might want to consider that the Supreme Court is hardly infallible, and that it's very suspicious that leftists only consider their decisions to be unchangeable gospel from on high when they agree with them. Otherwise, they seem to view those decisions as strangely meaningless and ephemeral. Curious, that.
I consider their rulings legally authoritative on issues of rights and the constitution.
And so does the State you live in. As same sex marriage is legal there too.
No, they fought for the "right" to legal sanction of same-sex relationships, something no one else had ever had. It's only "just like everyone else" if you're dumb enough to believe that women and men are exactly alike and interchangeable, which I know you don't really believe, or you wouldn't be very good at toeing the feminist line or the transgender "I'm a woman/man in my head" line. You can't have it all ways at once, y'know.
Also, they didn't "won" much of anything, really. You leftists are always in such a rush to get your own way by hook or by crook and to force your will onto everyone else that you never see the logical conclusion of your actions. If they really wanted to win a lasting achievement, they'd have gone by way of public opinion and votes instead of judicial fiat. I don't think I'd be touting a "victory" that causes more hostility and conflict than there was to start with. Rather Pyrrhic, in my opinion.
ALL of their rulings are on the issues of rights and the Constitution, dumbass. That's their JOB. You consider their rulings legally authoritative when it gives you your way, and at no other time. You can bullshit yourself about that if you like, but I'M not stupid enough to believe you.