It’s best to push these massive societal realignments through the courts, since representative democracy is so messy.

The Supreme Court’s refusal to accept any of the seven petitions for review of lower court rulings on same-sex marriage took many court observers by surprise, since the conventional wisdom was that either the justices in favor of SSM would seize the opportunity to legalize it nationwide with a single stroke, or the justices opposed … Continue reading Supreme Court rejects same-sex marriage petitions