Endgame of the Culture War

June, for conservatives, has been of late the â??cruelest monthâ? at the Supreme Court, as the decisions finally roll forth. Many expectâ??with a combination of apprehension and resignationâ??that in the critical case of Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy will furnish the fifth vote for installing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. But already, during the oral argument in the case in April, the solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, set off tremors in the land when Justice Samuel Alito raised the question of the precedent in the 1983 case of Bob Jones University.