The Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Non-Decision: Cowardly and Irresponsible0

• CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
• October 13, 2014

This article was first posted at cnsnews.com. The Supreme Court’s decision to reject all requests for review of lower-court homosexual marriage cases was cowardly and irresponsible. Certainly it is absurd to call this non-decision, as liberal commentator Cass Sunstein did, a manifestation of “the passive virtues.” There are two possible reasons for the Court’s avoidance.