David Bendof, Freelance Writer
Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced it will not review rulings from several lower courts that had found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The news has been widely interpreted as an auspicious signal for gay marriage – if not the nail in the coffin for man-woman marriage in America.
For example, a headline in The Atlantic declared, “The Same-Sex Marriage Fight is Over.” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson described the news as “surrender to the inevitable” and “a tipping point.” And Adam Liptak of The New York Times wrote that it “may indicate a point of no return for the Supreme Court.”
But the reality may be the opposite. The surprise judicial (in)action on this year’s “First Monday in October” means there will probably be no term-ending decision implementing gay marriage nationwide – a step most Court watchers had been expecting. In fact, the next big case asking whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage could come before a far more conservative court – which may rule that no such right exists.
Read entire article at: http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/07/actually-the-court-just-undercut-gay-marriages-inevitability/
