Anthony Kennedy: “And if they see a hostile, fractious discourse, if they see a discourse that uses identity politics rather than to talk…”

Teaching is a conscious act, and that’s what our judges do.

I stand by what we wrote and what we decided. It's a difficult issue.

Aren't they entitled to have parents who are legally recognized by the state?

When it has 1,100 laws, which in our society means that the federal government is intertwined with the citizen's day-to-day life, you are at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the state…