Normally, this would be dismissed out of hand and not even qualify as news. But this is 2024. With this supreme court. A supreme court that already has officially said that marriage equality is in their crosshairs, and gave marriage equality opponents a roadmap to getting a case before them. There is a very real possibility that they take up the case just because they feel like it and use it as justification to annul gay marriages nationwide in one fell swoop. And if you don’t think they’ll go that far in their ruling, then I just suggest you look at…well, <gestures broadly>…virtually every ruling they’ve made so far. Their entire approach has been to basically nuke it and everything remotely related to it from orbit.
Gay people should be very, very nervous about this case being brought back from the dead.
Normally, this would be dismissed out of hand and not even qualify as news. But this is 2024. With this supreme court. A supreme court that already has officially said that marriage equality is in their crosshairs, and gave marriage equality opponents a roadmap to getting a case before them. There is a very real possibility that they take up the case just because they feel like it and use it as justification to annul gay marriages nationwide in one fell swoop. And if you don’t think they’ll go that far in their ruling, then I just suggest you look at…well, <gestures broadly>…virtually every ruling they’ve made so far. Their entire approach has been to basically nuke it and everything remotely related to it from orbit.
Gay people should be very, very nervous about this case being brought back from the dead.
[A long paragraph I deleted prior to posting, speculating about what SCOTUS would/could do with a case like this.]
Which, I guess, is to say - if evil motherfuckers can dream it, these evil motherfuckers will do it.