William Murchison: “A grand misconception is embedding itself in the public brain: To wit, the Supreme Court soon will clue us in to the true meaning of marriage. Nope. No way. Isn’t so. Can’t be so. … The honorable justices have no more power to transform the venerable institution of marriage than has, say, an academy of music to declare that a harmonica is a bull fiddle. … Arguments against understanding marriage in the ‘traditional’ sense seem based mostly on the very modern, very subjective notion that I – got that? first-person ‘I’ – can say about sex whatever I want to, make whatever claims I like, apply to myself whatever rules I like, if any at all, never mind what some primitive Near Eastern god may have said about the matter long centuries ago. Modern confusion about sex is in fact a reversion to the primitivism that existed before the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob undertook to clarify His intentions concerning human life and its duties. Into the clamorous disorders of the present day various moderns want to drag, of all bodies, the U. S. Supreme Court for a reading, a re-interpretation, a new take on The Way Things Ought to Be. Are we thrilled yet?”