The majority opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision on the redefinition of marriage was expected. It was the dissent that was news. And ominous, for if the majority has changed the present law on marriage, the dissenting opinion indicates the future for religious liberty.
The majority opinion for the court was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who, apparently, alone gets to decide disputed social questions in a manner that ancient kings would envy. He has been heading toward his gay-marriage moment for more than two decades. In 1992, in the Casey opinion, which confirmed America’s unlimited abortion license, Kennedy wrote that “at the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life.”
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