The most interesting, and dispiriting, aspect of Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments on same-sex marriage was the absence in the court chamber of any real understanding of the history of marriage.
Several justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed to have the impression that the "definition" of marriage has been fixed for "millennia." Their goal, plainly, was to make an accommodation of same-sex marriage seem a far more momentous step than it really is. "It's very difficult for the court to say, oh, well, we--we know better," said Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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