Justice Kennedy’s rapturous ode to love in his written opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges owes more to the tone of the Sermon on the Mount than it does to a legal document.  His usurpation of the role of priest and religion is apparent, as he led the four other oracles of the U.S. Supreme Court to redefine for all the institution of marriage.  What that decision augers for the future remains uncertain, but it is without question an ominous omen for those who disagree. It must be heady stuff for the black robed priests of SCOTUS to believe they have decided the fate and social constitution of an entire nation.  As the chief justices of the most powerful nation on earth, it should be exhilarating to think their decisions have authority and power even to influence the entire direction of the global community.  But the moments in which the justices wander into the realm of theology rather than law are the very times they have committed the most egregious and...(Read Full Article)