I am questioning the propriety – indeed, the sanity – of having a value-laden decision such as this made for the entire society ... by unelected judges,

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 'reasoned judgment' of a bare majority of this Court - we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.