On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in its ‘Obergefell’ decision to extend same-sex marriage nationwide. I believed then, as I do now, that the court lawlessly imposed its definition of marriage on all 50 states.
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I’ll never forget where I was when the push alert came through on my phone.
As I sat in the lobbyist bullpen in Kentucky’s Capitol annex, the New York Times alert notified readers that the Obama administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law from the 1990s that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed states not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
