Ted Cruz's sidekick is deeply disappointed.
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee
reacts to the Supreme Court's decision to allow lower court rulings allowing marriage equality, including in Utah, to stand.
"The Supreme Court’s decision to not review the Tenth Circuit's ruling in Kitchen v. Herbert is disappointing. Nothing in the Constitution forbids a state from retaining the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Whether to change that definition is a decision best left to the people of each state—not to unelected, politically unaccountable judges. The Supreme Court owes it to the people of those states, whose democratic choices are being invalidated, to review the question soon and reaffirm that states do have that right."
Lee,
reacting to the Supreme Court's decision to allow employers to dictate the healthcare choices of women working for them:
"Today's decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby marks an important victory for religious liberty. Americans do not shed their religious freedoms merely by going into business. The Court's ruling upholds and strengthens the rights of individuals and the rule of law, while protecting the Constitution."
So the Supreme Court wasn't a bunch of unelected, politically unaccountable judges during Hobby Lobby, but they are now. Because the right to take birth control away from someone who works for you is far more constitutional than the right to marry. If you're a Republican.