Bishop Michael Jarrell of Lafayette must be commended for his intuitive grasp of the seriousness of the Obergefell ruling, and its implications for Catholics, to say nothing of his clarity in communicating this to his flock. He said in a recent statement:

Let me state very plainly that no human court has the authority to change what God has written into the law of creation. This ruling is irreconcilable with the nature and definition of marriage as established by Divine Law. The marital covenant was established by God with its proper nature and laws.

I realize that this ruling will create conscience problems for many Catholics, especially those in public office. In some cases, civil disobedience may be a proper response…As Catholics, we have a profound respect for the dignity of all God's children. Nevertheless, there is no basis in law or in nature for altering the traditional definition of marriage, established by God from the beginning.

Earlier this month, in Mexico, upon a Supreme Court ruling overturning state prohibitions on same-sex marriage, Gustavo Rodríguez Vega, Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, spoke in similar terms:

They can’t require an institution like this Church to go against its principles…Let the Supreme Court send the bishops and the priests to jail, whomever they want, but the Church cannot go against the law of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We know that we can go to jail, if some couple decides to marry civilly, but we won’t give it a blessing. This law cannot obligate the Church, the Church cannot go against its principles and in fact the only ones who will come to the Church will be those who share our principles...

Likewise, Agudath Israel of America, an organization representing US Orthodox Jews, warned in similar terms:

…we are deeply concerned that, as a result of today’s ruling, and as the dissenting Justices have pointed out, members and institutions of traditional communities like the Orthodox Jewish community we represent may incur moral opprobrium and risk tangible negative consequence if they refuse to transgress their beliefs, and even if they simply teach and express their religious views publicly. That prospect is chilling, and should be unacceptable to all people of good will on both sides of this debate.

As Justice Clarence Thomas has found, suggesting that man’s dignity is inherent, and not a thing to be given—or taken away—by the State, is an invitation to contempt, ridicule and scorn. He tried to oppose the invention of a Constitutional right to contract a same-sex marriage by arguing that to deny it took nobody’s inalienable dignity away—which would be impossible by definition.

So we have come to this. The family has become the terrestrial arena over which a huge supernatural battle of good vs. evil is being fought. This is the eschatological dimension of the ideological war, and one that in no way can admit a single compromise to divine law—which in any case does not belong to Man to negotiate away.