On: Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

[braythwayt]

  > Lawyers for the four states said their bans were justified by
  > tradition and the distinctive characteristics of opposite-sex
  > unions.

Reads like they dusted off the old arguments in favour of slavery and/or segregation and remixed the recipe for marriage.

Take a dollop of “tradition says it should be so,” and sprinkle on “distinctive characteristics” to taste.

[thisisdave → braythwayt]

"distinctive characteristics" reminds me of "The peculiar institution of the South---that, on the maintenance of which the very existence of the slaveholding States depends"

http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/calhoun2.html