The truth is that Gay marriage was going to happen eventually so the ruling just moved up the process....The truth is what the SCOTUS did was actually outside their judicial juridiction. They can rule laws unconsitutional, but to make law? Really? Is that what anyone wants? Is that what Dred Scott wanted?....The truth is in what the OP says. At least two of the judges should have not voted themselves because they didn't have the ability to be impartial. I will bet, and could be wrong, that if they had then the same thing might have happened but the voted would have been 4/3 but law would not have been made. I think the fix is always in and the justices decide who is going to vote how to save face....What this is, is a case where the justices were appointed properly although Congress certainly should have stopped a few of them and the decision is not liked by the "losers." The only problem is that we are all losers when the SCOTUS acts as they did in this case ...