Re-listening to the Obergefell oral arg with my students and boy, it's remarkable how an argument can be exposed as terrible and crumble before one's eyes when someone has to stand up and defend it in open court.
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As of last June, Americans' support for legal same-sex marriage was as high as opposition to it was 25 years earlier. 
John Bursch told the justices that opening marriage to gay couples would irreparably harm the institution by decoupling it from procreation. Children would doubt their parents would stay together if marriage is just about an "emotional commitment."
One of the silliest claims I've heard at the Court and one of the most entertainingly ruthless dismantlings by the justices—complete with a Scalia attempted rescue & a Kagan diss that made the audience erupt in laughter.
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