I think Mike Elgan​ summed it up best.

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I think Mike Elgan​ summed it up best.

Originally shared by Mike Elgan

Why the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage is a huge victory for straight people.

Celebrations and congratulations abound online over the Supreme Court's ruling that gay marriage is legal in all 50 states. 

Most feel that it's an enormous win for gay people who want to get married, which (obviously) it is. 

But as good as most Americans feel about what this means for our gay family and friends, the truth is that its effect on people who are actually gay and who will actually get married is only one part of what happened today. 

The larger event is that in a huge test of the Constitution, the principle of equality emerged victorious. 

The Constitution is pretty fucking clear on equality. The 14th Amendment says: "No state shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

You have on the one side the mere idea of equality enshrined into the Constitution, and on the other the dirty, real-life cesspool of human bigotry, prejudice, fear, hate, narrow interests, privilege and more. 

What happened today is that the Constitution won, once again transferring the benefits of an enlightened group of people from our past and bestowing it upon the present, a present in which special interests, greed and the callous disregard for equality rules our politics. 

Note that this isn't about equality, per se -- it's not about using the law to make everyone equal. It's about every citizen being treated equally by our government. It's about equality before the law. 

Without equality before the law, America stands for nothing.

So, congratulations to every American. This was a huge win for all of us.

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