Has The Supreme Court Already Decided On Marriage Equality?

The tea leaves told me that Immigration would be the next great big shoe to drop in American culture when firm legislation is finally established to deal with it nationwide. 

I'm going to the organic food store to get some new tea leaves because Marriage Equality might win the race.  Healthcare seems deeply enough entrenched to not worry about its future anymore, so the checklist of social ills in America has both check marks and eraser smudges all over it these days. Education is sadly sliding all across the land, but stubborn states who demand autonomy will force another run at federal legislation, such as No Child Left Behind, or an acquiescence towards our current endless cycles of research and development (see; trial and error) in education.  

Thanks to the forward thinking of our youth, and an extreme ambivalence towards marriage in general, America might finally realize that love is WAY too complicated to try and force it into our social engineering machine, which breaks as many things as it holds in place.  Do you recall that joke that heterosexual liberals would use saying, "homosexuals deserve to be just as miserable as the rest of us"? When you look at marriage statistics and America's lack of affinity towards getting and staying married, it makes the humor of that joke lose its punchline.  Marriage used to get easier from the outside looking in perspective of our married grandparents lives.  In hindsight, grandpa was just a whole lot better at ignoring my restless grandma than modern day grandpa could ever be.  Watching today's old couples getting a divorce, or chasing after love in their latter years tells you all you need to know about the evolution of modern marriage.

Now, even the highly esteemed justices of the American Supreme court are angling towards granting gay couples the misery that hetero couples have free access to.  While several states have already fixed the disparity in marriage, many other states are currently fighting tooth and nail for the right to insure that only hetero couples ride the roller coaster we call modern marriage.  Time and time again, heterosexuals are proving to be just as utterly dysfunctional with love as their homosexual counterparts, so the sacred right of exclusivity is losing its reason.  Biblical morays used to rule the day, but even spiritual leaders have come to accept that, even if homosexuality is a sin, it can not be treated as a sin more extreme than the other sins from the bible, which does not assign a stack rank to human behavior- or misbehavior if you will.

The final analysis of marriage is that the paper will never insure love and the love will never be defined by a piece of paper.  What defines a marriage is uniquely special for every couple, and the strength of the unity defines the family units that contribute to the society we enjoy.  Homosexual couples are a real and significant part of society and our best hope that they "get over it" has been insulting to gays and embarrassing for any forward thinker.  My gay family deserves love just as much as my non-gay family, but sometimes we (especially black families) give more love to our jailbirds than our gay boys- as though being gay is worse than a crime.

It should be enough of a sign that the ultra conservative state of Alabama has given in on gay marriage, but  those in Alabama against gay marriage quickly objected to the will of the people, forcing the issue to be addressed by the Supreme Court of the land.  The Supreme Court refused to block Alabama's law prompting conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to clarify the message behind the message.  AP reports that, "He (Thomas) criticized his fellow justices for looking "the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws," rather than following the customary course of leaving those laws in place until the court answers an important constitutional question.", suggesting that the forward movement on gay marriage needs to wait for the Supreme Court to decide.  Justice Thomas seems unclear that 37 states have already legalized gay marriage as he tries valiantly to create a short-term out for the remaining holdout states of America.  

What they are buying time for is an inevitable course that the Supreme Court has essentially taken action on by their inaction (just as Thomas suggested in his dissent).  What has been determined is the standard even while the process of standardizing rages on.  What we have concluded is that being gay is hardly the worse sin on the planet and might be under re-evaluation as a sin at all with a closer examination of human hormones and human nature overall. The genetic design of procreation only tells about how we are to maintain human population, not the love story that sustains human families- and nothing seems to suggest that homosexual parents will automatically have homosexual or imbalanced children.  In fact, studies show that there is no social disadvantage at all to being raised with gay parents .

I personally had to come to grips with my own homophobia that was most likely rooted in my religious upbringing.  Other religious folks have done the same, and these days churches don't have to be exclusive to gay christian's because more and more regular churches are accepting gay members. Since the blood of grace covers all of our sin, even the concept of sexual sin should not compel us to expel our gay brethren from their rightful place in society and from the necessary legal standing that allows families to live and love equally. 

Marriage equality is about Family, a word that is forged in love and forever bound by its power.