This morning, witnessing the U.S. Supreme Court’s shocking ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, I felt truly disheartened that the contradictions of majority rule and the manipulated results of a minority exploiting that system could turn American society upside down. Seeing the president, who has the power to appoint some Supreme Court justices, and a minority wielding power over the internet overturn American history made me realize we truly live in a frightening era. Reflecting on the biblical warning that a world where faith grows harder to uphold is coming, I cannot express how grateful I am that my family came to Korea. Raising children in a country where the principles of family and marriage remain intact, I pray for the crumbling American society. Below is a summary of the dissenting opinions from the four conscientious Supreme Court justices who opposed same-sex marriage.

Chief Justice Roberts:  “But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening….The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims judicial ‘caution’ and omits even a pretense of humility, openly relying on its desire to remake society according to its own ‘new insight’ into the ‘nature of injustice.’”

Justice Scalia:  “The [majority’s] opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so…The stuff contained in today’s opinion has to diminish this Court’s reputation for clear thinking and sober analysis.”

Justice Thomas:  “Our Constitution—like the Declaration of Independence before it—was predicated on a simple truth: One’s liberty, not to mention one’s dignity, was something to be shielded from—not provided by—the State. Today’s decision casts that truth aside. In its haste to reach a desired result, the majority misapplies a clause focused on “due process” to afford substantive rights, disregards the most plausible understanding of the “liberty” protected by that clause, and distorts the principles on which this Nation was founded. Its decision will have inestimable consequences for our Constitution and our society.”

Justice Alito: “Today’s decision usurps the constitutional right of the people to decide whether to keep or alter the traditional understanding of marriage. The decision will also have other important consequences.It will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy. In the course of its opinion,the majority compares traditional marriage laws to laws that denied equal treatment for African-Americans and women. The implications of this analogy will be exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.”