article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The best part of the Supreme Court oral arguments about marriage equality was when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg alluded to
article_snippet.sent: S&M. OK, Sally Kohn didn't actually mention S&M, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talked about how the institution of marriage has already changed from long ago, when it was "a dominant and a subordinate relationship."
article_snippet.sent: "Yes, it was marriage between a man and a woman, but the man decided where the couple would be domiciled," said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  
article_snippet.sent: It was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg obligation to follow the man."
article_snippet.sent: Mary Bonauto, the attorney arguing on behalf of the four same-sex couples who petitioned the Supreme Court, said in response:  
article_snippet.sent: Justice Anthony Kennedy, widely believed to be the key swing vote amidst a court otherwise generally evenly divided along ideological lines, at one point referred to "the nobility and the sacredness of marriage.
article_snippet.sent: Still, the marriage equality arguments seemed even more shaped by politics than the law.  
article_snippet.sent: Aping conservative religious activists, Justice Samuel Alito asked whether four people could then get married.
article_snippet.sent: On the other hand, Justice Stephen Breyer talked about marriage as a fundamental liberty while Justice Elena Kagan pushed back on whether legalizing same-sex marriage would really harm or take anything away from opposite-sex couples.  
article_snippet.sent: Both arguments, and the moral force beneath them, seemed to echo gay rights messaging.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sally Kohn says marriage equality arguments seemed even more shaped by politics than the law .