B/c they are bigots and cowards............which make up a good deal of this horrid country..............................

Why Four Justices Were Against the Supreme Court's Huge Gay-Marriage Decision

Highlights from the Court's dissents.

BY BRIAN RESNICK, LAUREN FOX AND DUSTIN VOLZ

Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage demonstrate near the Supreme Court.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

June 26, 2015 Same-sex marriage is now a right in every state in the country, following ahistoric 5-4 decision from the Supreme Court Friday. The four justices who disagreed with the Court's opinion, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, each wrote their own dissent laying out just why they believed the majority to be wrong.

Here's their reasoning.

Chief Justice John Roberts

Roberts's argument centered around the need to preserve states' rights over what he viewed as following the turn of public opinion. In ruling in favor of gay marriage, he said, "Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law."

Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas joined him in his dissent.

While Roberts said he did not "begrudge" any of the celebrations that would follow the Court ruling, he had serious concerns that the Court had extended its role from constitutional enforcer to activist.

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Roberts: "Understand well what this dissent is about: It is not about whether, in my judgment, the institution of marriage should be changed to include same-sex couples."

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"Understand well what this dissent is about: It is not about whether, in my judgment, the institution of marriage should be changed to include same-sex couples. It is instead about whether, in our democratic republic, that decision should rest with the people acting through their elected representatives, or with five lawyers who happen to hold commissions authorizing them to resolve legal disputes according to law," he wrote.

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