Over the decades, Ginsburg was constantly broadening her understanding of “unjustified inequality” beyond her own experience. The justice’s explanation of “unjustified inequality” in Sessions drew from the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized same-sex couples’ fundamental right to marry. Her connection between sex discrimination and anti-gay discrimination was prescient. A few months after Obergefell came down, Ginsburg noted that feminism and marriage equality are deeply intertwined. “It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough,” the justice said. “Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‘head and master rule,’ ” which gave husbands total control over marital property. “Marriage was a relationship between the dominant, breadwinning husband and the subordinate, child-rearing wife,” Ginsburg continued. States locked both partners into gender roles based on a stereotyped vision of what marriage means. “What lesbian or gay man,” the justice asked, “would want that?”https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-changed-the-world.html
Here is the statement from the Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell of Kentucky