A family court judge told a religious group it's the U.S. Supreme Court, not the states, that are behaving irrationally over the legal definition of marriage.
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Approximately 16 months have passed since the high court announced its 5-4 decision that favored plaintiff Jim Obergefell (pictured at right).
The court discovered that the 14th Amendment, which guarantees due process and equal protection, includes allowing two men, or two women, to be legally recognized as a married couple.
Both opponents and defenders of the court's decision considered it a landmark ruling, since it struck down state-level marriage laws and constitutional amendments.
The logic and reasoning behind the ruling have frustrated Tim Philpot, a circuit court judge in Kentucky.
"The union is in the difference," Philpot said in a Sept. 8 speech before the Francis Asbury Society. "And so having sameness in marriage is really very illogical."
Flipping that observation around, Philpot said the high court ruled last year that it's irrational to believe that legal marriage is solely a union of a man and a woman, and also irrational for states to create such laws that declare that.
"I'm sort of offended by that," he said, "the Supreme Court telling me I'm irrational."
That observation mirrors the criticism of the court's conservative justices, whose dissenting opinions were scathing.
"Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal," Justice John Roberts wrote, referring to the push to legalize same-sex marriage. "But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it."
Justice Clarence Thomas warned that a majority of the court "invoked our Constitution in the name of a 'liberty' that the Framers would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect."
The judge's speech earned him a critical story by the Courier-Journal newspaper, which pointed out that Philpot oversees homosexual adoptions despite his religious objections to homosexuality.
The newspaper apparently attempted – but failed - to find attorneys whose homosexual clients were treated unfairly by Philpot. The judge has always been polite and fair, they said.
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