> - That the US Constitution matters to me. > - That I give any moral value to legal minutia. Fair enough, but you are commenting on a post about a judicial r

> - That the US Constitution matters to me. > - That I give any moral value to legal minutia. Fair enough, but you are commenting on a post about a judicial ruling, not a post about a constitutional amendment or an act of the legislature. The moment judges decide to ban something or uphold a ban on something based on consequentialist decisions rather than interpreting the law is the moment we go from a rules-based government to government by judicial fiat, and that has some very bad consequentialist repercussions. This was a bad law that needed to be overturned, and it was.