Lawyers get paid to pay attention to Supreme Court decisions. Occasionally, though, there are cases involving hot-button issues that even the general public takes a keen interest in. The Supreme Courts decision in Obergefell v. Hodges clearly qualifies.
In that case, the Court held that the 14th Amendment requires states to license marriages between same-sex couples and to recognize a same-sex marriage when the marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state.