I don’t know too many women anxious to assist the meaning & impact of the word mother into obscurity by giving a thumbs up to motherless marriages.
Especially not in Tennessee.
Except no one is really proposing that...
So one more time... gays can get married, how has that made your life worse?
No one was really proposing that; yet that is exactly what is happening. Unintended consequences exist.
So as to your next question, since my quality of life is vastly overshadowed by the entire State of Tenessee’s quality of life (& therefore that State’s standing as to this question of law), we address It & not me.
As to that, then, gays getting married in Tennessee means that some people in Tennessee will have contracts that EFFECTIVELY banish children implicitly involved in said contracts, from a mother (or father) & the importance of those irreplaceable roles...for life.
Why does that matter to the entire State of Tennessee? Look for the rationale in any pleadings pending. But my money is on that the State wants to avoid the known & uber-documented & peer-reviewed pitfalls of giving a blessing, no less, to kids being raised in motherless & fatherless homes..ensuing rises in indigence, crime rates, prison terms, drug addiction & all the rest.
Plus; Obergefell was arrived at illegally, in direct defiance of Windsor 2013 & outside the powers of the Judicial Branch of government. So doing it effectively stripped states of their due powers (without authority to do so) it had just said was the sole realm of a states to determine (Windsor 2013).