Susan Page writes in USA Today: “In a nationwide USA TODAY/ Suffolk University Poll, those surveyed say by 51%-35% that it’s no longer practical for the Supreme Court to ban same-sex marriages because so many states have legalized them.” She is accurately reporting the poll — but the poll itself is stupid, since the Supreme Court is not considering whether “to ban same-sex marriages.” What the Court is actually deciding is whether states will be allowed to refrain from granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Nobody is arguing that the Supreme Court should stop a state government that wants to grant such licenses from doing so. The public may or may not think the Court should find that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right that all states have to honor, or it may not have a definitive view on the question. But this poll sure doesn’t tell us anything useful about the decision before the Court.