A healthy, happy stable family makes for better more productive work force. Fewer criminals. Fewer mass shooters. Fewer burned out inner city rat holes. All of which means higher GDP, less government spending.
Compare today to the 50’s-60’s. Compare the US to countries that have these things.
The evidence is out there. Of course it’s impossible to make a direct comparision beacuse of inherent differences between then and now and us and them, but the evidence is there to suggest these things matter.
It isn’t the “blessing of the State” but a myriad of legal protections and benefits that are conferred for the low low price of $30 - $100 depending on the State.
Keep your kids out of Democrat run cities like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta etc. and the chance of them become a victim of gun violence goes down by about 90%.
Keep them out of drug gangs and it drops even further.
What SCOTUS addressed was a law that made something illegal that people should be able to do. That law made it a jailable offense for certain spouses to be spouses. It was more than denying state recognition and benefits to that union. It was flat-out jailing them for being together.
People should have that right of association. Rights are (or should be) about what we DO.
The mischaracterization in contemporary rights discussion is the notion that rights also apply to “gettiing”.
I contend that no right should require some other entity to give.