You'll hear plenty of rhetoric in coming days, some of it outright hateful, but anytime more Americans are treated equally is a good day in my opinion. It is not the government's role to dictate which consenting adults can be married. A government which can do that is way too powerful. It will still take two or three more generations before most people care less about who marries who, what consenting adults do in the privacy of their home, etc., but today is a huge step in that direction. As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote: "The law places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier marriage. The differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects, and whose relationship the state has sought to dignify.”