The first of what will likely be many Jewish responses to the Supreme Court’s decision today, the haredi Orthodox Agudath Israel of America was brief and to the point:
Society’s mores may shift and crumble but eternal verities exist. One is marriage, the union of a man and a woman. Its sanctity may have been grievously insulted by the High Court today, but that sanctity remains untouched.
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