I Wish I Could Be Excited by The Respect for Marriage Act

A celebratory crowd of thousands bundled up on a chilly Tuesday afternoon to watch President Joe Biden sign gay marriage legislation into law, a joyful ceremony that was tempered by the backdrop of an ongoing conservative backlash over gender issues.

It was noteworthy that, while a quarter of the Republicans in the Senate voted for the bill, thirty-six of them stood pat don their Hill of Hate.

Why I'm not excited is because I believe that the Christian Taliban wing of the Supremes will come up with a rationale for invalidating the law.

Let's embrace the suck and do what we can to ensure that the Fascists Federalist on the Court walk the walk of originalism. The electrial utilites should disconnect power to their homes. Instead, cords of firewood should be delivered each Fall. Yank out their fridges, freezers, canned goods and gas ranges and install wood cook stoves. No synthethics for clothing; only wood, cotton, linen, and leather apparel. They can sit at their desks by candlelight and write out their opinions, longhand, using quill pens. For entertainment, one member of their family can play the harpischord, or, if they were keeping up with the times, a fortepiano.

They should be limited to travel by carriage and stagecoach. For medical treatment, they should be offer the finest leeches and, of course, bloodletting. Surgery should be performed without anasthetics. No antibiotic, so the cure for an infected hand will be amputation. Dental work will be limited to extractions.

All that sounds brutal, but what the hell: If they are going to force us to live by the law of the 18th Century, then they should have to live fully in that century. Of course, that would mean Justice Thomas would be enslaved and Justice Barrett would be sentback to run her household, but those are the consequences of their choices.