I have written a hundred updates in my head, and scrapped them over and over. I want to be heard as a yell into the cacophonous void. I only have so many times to speak my piece, I want it to matter. So first I'll talk political than spiritual.
In the least surprising turn of events imaginable, the Supreme Court deemed the ban of same-sex marriages on the state level unconstitutional. The majority opinion was sloppy, the dissenting opinions caustic and divided, and the justifications used were messy and easily open to further interpretation. I think the better route would have been Amendment 9, Amendment 14, Amendment 1, and a dash of Nullification Crisis related materials added for good measure. With that being said, I think it was the right decision to make. There is not a scenario I can think of where marginalizing a particular minority segment of the population with the approval of the religious establishment was moral or beneficial at any point within history for any nation I can think of. Here, the government takes the life (money is time is life-segments, see movie In Time for an awesome elaboration on this idea) and some liberties of all of it's citizens, of any orientation, ethnicity, culture, age. Consequently, it is obligated to attend to each citizen's well-being to the best of it's ability by virtue of social contract. This is the fundamental conception our political system was founded upon.
