Justice Scalia, in his dissent in today's decision by the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage, asked,
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think that Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.
People quickly began to have a lot of fun at a new Twitter and Facebook hashtag: #AskTheNearestHippie. And the Washington Post apparently looked for the nearest hippie to ask about gay marriage. They also published a helpful map of the US showing where the highest concentration of hippies live.
A detail that didn't quite register on me when I skimmed through the Roberts dissent was highlighted by a Lawrence Downes blog post in the NY Times: Roberts mentioned the Aztecs as one of several randomly-selected cultures that did not have same-sex marriage. Downes suggested that the Aztecs weren't perhaps the best culture to mention in this context---his post was illustrated by a gruesome 16th century drawing of an Aztec human sacrifice ritual.
But the biggest laugh I had today was about something that cropped up on Facebook. It turns out that today, June 26, is the anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decisions overturning sodomy laws (Lawrence v. Texas, in 2003) and partially overturning DOMA (United States v. Windsor, 2013). This apparently prompted well-known anti-gay activist Bryan Fischer to tweet: "From a moral standpoint, 6/26 is our 9/11." This elicited the reply from one Steven: "Gay marriage can't melt steel beams"