What are your favorite supreme court opinions to read?

Same. I am quite conservative and agree much more with the dissenting justices in Obergefell. I see the majority as having overstepped the role of the judiciary, and I cannot help but feel uncomfortable with the decision based on my religious beliefs.

As much as I disagree with the majority in Obergefell, however, I fully agree that Kennedy wrote it beautifully. It was deeply moving, really.

The final paragraph of the majority opinion, for example, said this:

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

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