Unless Congress exercises its Constitutional authority to ignore the court's opinion, American taxpayers will be forced to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars in increased federal spending to give spousal-type government benefits to the new category of beneficiaries the court thinks it has the power to force Congress to legally recognize.  We hope Congress refuses.  If not, this will be yet another instance in which tens of millions of Americans are forced to violate their conscience by subsidizing behavior they believe is immoral and wrong.

We also fear the increased threat to the religious liberty and rights of conscience of individuals and churches who may find themselves joining the ranks of Christian photographers, bakers, florists, bed and breakfast owners, and churches across the country who have already been sued and fined thousands of dollars for refusing as a matter of conscience to service homosexual "weddings."

We agree with Justice Antonin Scalia that the Supreme Court has "no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation." http://www.floridatoday.com/viewart/20130626/NEWS01/306260044/Supreme-Court-clears-way-Calif-gay-mar riages-strikes-down-federal-provision

We agree with Thomas Jefferson, the first Democratic Party president, who said the Constitution does not give five members of the Supreme Court any more power to decide what is and is not constitutional than the president or Congress, and that allowing the court that power would be a 'very dangerous doctrine' and a threat to our liberties.

We agree with Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, who said that if the Supreme Court is ever allowed the power to instantaneously make law in all 50 states, affecting all Americans, we no longer have a government of the people but instead have surrendered our entire government to five unelected lawyers.  Thankfully, the court stopped short of an illegitimate attempt to strike down voter-approved marriage amendments in Michigan and 30 other states in one fell swoop.

And we agree with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who said we have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws, which he defined as any man-made ruling that is at odds with God's laws, and that refusing to obey a law that our conscience tells us is unjust is in fact showing the highest respect for law.  Again, tens of millions of Americans believe that any ruling that legally recognizes so-called homosexual "marriage" is at odds with the definition of marriage offered by Christ Himself: "For this reason shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife."  And that wasn't a multiple choice question.
 

President Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence:

"The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch." -- Letter to Mrs. John Adams, Nov. 1804  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_Thomas_Jefferson_say_about_judicial_review

"You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges ... and their power [are] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves ... When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves." -- Letter to Mr. Jarvis, Sept, 1820  http://www.seekfind.net/ThomasJefferson.html

President Abraham Lincoln, author of the Emancipation Proclamation, in his first Inaugural Address, March 1861:
"I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit...  At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 1963: