Article III Judges are NOT supposed to be "liberals" or "conservatives" they swore to support and defend the Constitution and should set aside their personal views when adjudicating. Like Thomas Jefferson stated , judges are supposed to be mere machines.
Americans have a right to liberty, property, life and to pursue happiness.
In the past I agree. Most Justices were just that, serious, experienced dispensors of carefully-deliberated, unbiased opinions. They were chosen as older men and women so that they had years of experience. Their reputations were untarnished. Today we know what we have in the Supreme Court. It's a smaller version of Congress. Their lobbiests are more invisible. But they're there.
How else would you explain what they did on the eve of an election by refusing to take up the gay marriage appeals; even though 32 states petitioned them in desperation to resolve the highly contested issue? They did it, the conservatives anyway, to inspire more conservatives to vote in outrage. That's the sole reason they did it. The mistake they made is that the outrage and impotence conservative voters see in that move is directed towards CONSERVATIVES who are supposed to be our last bastion and guard of traditional marriage. Everyone knows that if you allow laws to erode, they cannot be enforceable. Conservatives may also have "bought the lie" that "a majority of Americans now support gay marriage" [while the LGBT machine does triple back flips to make sure Americans aren't allowed to vote on it].
They think they can roll it all back after they allow thousands of gay people to marry-in the "legality" of their arrangment. And they know they cannot. To them it was a "excusable collateral damage" to the fabric of society; just to pack Congress in this particular point in history. Meanwhile the damage to democracy remains permanent. And the looming harm to children irreversable. [evidence: gay pride parades, Harvey Milk]
Like the proverbial myopic idiot, the conservatives chose to breed themselves out of existence, all to command one Congressional period and perhaps one term with a GOP president. Allowing a behavioral group repugnant to the majority to dictate to the majority "how it will be" has ushered in a neo fascist wildfire in terms of legal precedent. This group has demonstrated not just a penchant to display lewd sex acts to kids in public as an organized display of "pride", and elevated a child teen sex predator as their messiah [Harvey Milk]. They have displayed a penchant to use the legal system and precedent like a bullet-train whenever and wherever they want it to take them.
This is how fascist cults take hold. From there, their other penchant, very similar to the nazis I might add [speaking of intolerance], which is public witch-hunts and inquisitions for those who don't fall 100% in support for the LGBT agenda/dogma will take on new momentum. You literally will be fined if you are a minister trying to preach Jude 1 to your flock. You really will be jailed for refusing to turn a child over in adoption to a couple of gay guys you just saw performing oral sex in a pride parade the day before. You really will find your career destroyed for daring to criticize their messiah for sodomizing his 16 year old minor adopted ward.
This isn't a hypothetical. These things are happening RIGHT NOW, ALREADY. And the conservative Justices just threw gasoline on the very fire that will burn them out of existence. How many LGBT or "LGBT-friendly-or-else" indoctrinated households will vote conservative in the future? And for that matter, will votes even be allowed after the new and dangerous precedent of minority-behaviors-repugnant-to-the-majority running the roost takes hold?
Tell the conservatives how you feel by doing either of these two things:
1. If nothing changes between now and the vote, stay home. Don't brave the traffic or the weather or the inconvenience just to vote for people who have betrayed your values...traitors to your party's core values.
2. If a significant gain happens to favor the voices of the People of the states to self rule on this question, show up to the polls in numbers. Crawl there on your belly through the mud if you have to.
Take back your party. Send a message to conservative leaders: "no traitors".