Supporters of gay marriage wave the rainbow flag after the Supreme  Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides  same-sex couples the right to  marry, at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 26, 2015(Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

The question of whether the Supreme Court should revisit the decision, as it did Roe, is on the table.

Eleven years ago, in a 5–4 ruling, the Supreme Court announced its discovery of a hitherto unknown constitutional right — a right to same-sex marriage. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court invalidated state laws — enacted by the people’s elected representatives in state legislatures from Michigan to Texas — defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and ordering all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners.

Vindicating Aristotle’s observation that laws perform a teaching function, support for “same-sex marriage” rose rapidly and dramatically in the wake of the Court’s ruling. In just a few short decades, the ...

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