10 Years After Obergefell, increasing reasons for overturning
June 26 marks the 10th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that radically redefined the ageless and cross-cultural definition of marriage and the family. Both are no longer about bringing together the two complementary halves of humanity - male and female - in an essential, cooperative, life-producing union. Marriage and family are now "inclusive," and that's the problem.
Obergefell embarked us on yet another vast, untested experiment with marriage - and it is not going well.
Of course, the push for "gay marriage" was never just about marriage. It was always about de-sexing the family and society. If the essential qualities of male and female are optional for marriage and the family, both become effectively meaningless everywhere else. They are mere preferences.
........................So-called gay marriage was always about redefining and de-sexing the family, which Justice Kennedy so cleverly did with his assumptive leap that marriage is about "two persons" and not the male-female union he earlier admitted "has existed for millennia and across civilizations & [s]ince the dawn of history."
This is the first reason why citizens must call for the overturning of Obergefell. It deconstructs and neuters our understanding of humanity. This is precisely what happens when a society shifts its conception of the irreplaceable human institution of the family to say its most essential dynamic parts - male and female - are now no longer required because members of the same sex will work just as well. Of course, they cannot, but that logical impossibility is exactly what Obergefell demands.