Another In A Series

Once again: are you an ordinary person, with the inescapable notion that high-born and well-heeled elites are abusing their positions of trust and conspiring to undermine the beliefs you hold dear?  Don't worry: you're not paranoid.  You're correct:

To strike down DOMA, Judge Tauro had to reject all state justifications for its definition of marriage. Congress advanced four such justifications for this statute: "(1) encouraging responsible procreation and child-bearing, (2) defending and nurturing the institution of traditional heterosexual marriage, (3) defending traditional notions of morality, and (4) preserving scarce resources." The Justice Department disavowed them all. So much for tradition. Its sole defense of DOMA was that it was needed to preserve the status quo until matters were sorted out politically. Given that open invitation Judge Tauro concluded that all of the justifications offered in DOMA flunked even the lowest "conceivable" standard of rationality. Religious people will surely take umbrage at his one-sentence rebuttals of centuries of tradition.

The intra-elite argument over "gay marriage" has all the authenticity of a pro wrestling match.  The outcome is foreordained.  The sovereignty of the American people is no more.