Daily Wire host says the Supreme Court should have “the fortitude, the courage, the vision” to overturn same-sex marriage
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From the August 14, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): There are going to be people in the audience, people who are a little light in the loafers maybe, people who are squishy on the right, people who are on the left — there are plenty of moderate liberals who watch this show. And they're gonna say, Michael, come on. Why do you care about Obergefell? Why do you care about this gay marriage decision? You're not going to overrule the gay marriage decision.
First of all, that's what you all told me about Roe v. Wade for my whole life, and then we we just overruled it. It was fine.
But second of all, this is not a trivial issue. Just like the Left has to go after the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Left has to make nuns pay for — they're not actually nuns, they're religious sisters, but most people use those terms synonymously — they have to make people with religious vocations pay for condoms and abortions. They have to do it. That's just — that's the end of their political activism. So too, they have to redefine marriage. It's not a trivial issue. Marriage is the fundamental political unit. This is not just a matter of, oh, who cares what other people do in the privacy of their own homes? This is not the privacy of their own home. This is a public act with the basic public union articulated by the Supreme Court.
If you can redefine marriage, if you can redefine the family, you can redefine all of society. If you can make the Little Sisters of the Poor betray their God, you can do anything. If you can redefine the basic constituent piece of the entire political order, you can do anything politically. That's what this is about. Those are the stakes.
And I don't know that the right understood those stakes back when Obergefell was decided, the left did. I don't think the right did. I think the right kind of does now. And I think Clarence Thomas certainly has the the cogliones to to decide this case properly. Justice Alito, I'm confident, does.
Do the others? I hope. I hope Barrett and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Roberts have the fortitude, the courage, the vision to state what is obviously true, what every culture has known for all of human history, is that marriage involves a man and a woman. If we don't know that, if we no longer know that in our political life, we don't know anything. We don't know anything. They know that. Every even semi-reasonable person knows that fact. One question that we have is will the political order allow us? And I think yes.