I see Justice Scalia has been castigated by left-wing commentators for his dissent as being out-of-touch, and I think unfairly. I'm not naïve enough to think the judiciary doesn't have a political agenda on such issues, but reading Scalia's dissent, you get the impression that he thought he was doing the right thing in preserving a "government of laws and not a government of people".
Indeed. His point was ultimately that the country was doing just fine debating same-sex marriagebefore the court trampled all over the process.
"Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best...The substance of today's decree is not of immense personal importance to me...It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today's decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court."
