Today’s decision … will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy. In the course of its opinion, the majority compares traditional marriage laws to laws that denied equal treatment for African-Americans and women. E.g., ante, at 11–13. The implications of this analogy will be exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.
Justice Alito. I don’t see how anyone could possibly contest this reading of what is to come for religious traditionalists. The only significant disagreement will be about whether to lament or applaud.