Supporters of gay marriage in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2015, two months before the Obergefell decision legalized those unions across the nation. (Astrid Riecken, Washington Post via Getty Images)

The destruction of the institution of marriage in the United States a decade ago happened almost exactly four years after its ruination across New York, which in turn followed its evisceration in states including Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa.

Or so the opponents of same-sex marriage would have had you believe just before the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges. An amicus brief filed by Louisiana and 14 other states warned the justices of “severe, unavoidable, and irreversible” consequences if the high court legalized same-sex marriage. When five justices did just that, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent that “abandoning the older........

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