text: When the entire judiciary agrees, you can be confident it was based on law and natural rights, not politics.  The politics favored pandering to the bishops, which is why people went to court.  Marriage has always been about building a legal family, not necessarily the kind with children.  It still is.  When a person gets married they leave their parents and cling to their spouse.  Catholic hospitals were not allowing gay couples to do that.  Even without the recent decisions, by the way, they do now.