Here's the offensive sow herself. Nice pic, Sue! Sheesh, comb your hair.
Posted on 01/07/2015 3:38:54 AM PST by NetAddicted
They poured into Room 140 of the Hillsborough County Courthouse on Tuesday morning two by two, some with friends and family in tow, exhilarated, bearing bouquets, holding hands, filling the place with their energy. This day was big and unstoppable and happening at last.
In their midst stood Pat Frank, the petite 85-year-old clerk of the court, cheered by the crowd like a rock star. She wore the somber black robes of her late husband, Judge Richard Frank, and posed obligingly with her arms around couples for wedding photos. "This is a wonderful day for America," she told everyone, but you could tell they already knew it.
In the midst of all this — a celebration of Florida becoming the next state in which you can legally and officially wed whom you want, gay or straight — what must it feel like to wake up on what's sure to be the wrong side of history?
Up in Tallahassee, Gov. Rick Scott was celebrating, too, though not about this (banish the thought). Scott was at the inauguration kicking off his second term, though it's fair to say his events were eclipsed by something far bigger happening all across the state.
Then there's fellow Republican Pam Bondi, the state attorney general who has put no small amount of energy into the fight to keep Florida's archaic ban on gay marriage intact (known as the refuse-to-live-and-let-live doctrine).
Also of note: Some Florida counties decided to stop performing marriage ceremonies and only issue licenses, which seems like one last feeble shot at slowing the inevitable. Pasco Clerk Paula O'Neil cited budget reasons, but also acknowledged she took into account that some employees would not be comfortable marrying gay people. (If you are too uncomfortable with the laws and practices of the government office in which you work, maybe it's not the job for you.)
So what might Wikipedia one day say of all this when gay marriage is no more remarkable than being left-handed?
Will some of the players be remembered like those restaurant owners who made black customers unwelcome? Like the bosses who declined to hire women? Like anyone who believed the color of someone's skin or their gender should be factors in whether they get to vote?
History will tell.
Later on this blue-sky Tuesday, couples would gather in the park square outside the courthouse for a massive marriage ceremony officiated by Frank. Downtown church bells would ring and rice would be thrown. A little boy with chocolate ice cream on his shirt would record the whole thing on an iPhone for his grandmother, and a lot of people would cry, even though they were smiling.
Before all that, though, Frank ceremoniously married the first couple through the door that morning in a makeshift chapel off Room 140, with TV cameras and everyone else crowding in to watch. Afterward, the two women in white were hugged by strangers. And as they were leaving, making their way back out into the world, a clerk's office employee called to them, "Ladies! Don't leave without your license!"
Then one of the brides came back with a good one:
"Oh," she said, "it's just a piece of paper."
And everyone who had waited for this day for so long — together nine years, they would tell you, 16 years, 23 years, more — laughed and clapped. Maybe one day history will make this so — just a piece of paper that applies equally to everyone, everywhere.
How will history see it? Genesis 19, Judges 19, Isaiah 5:20, Romans 1 and Revelation 21:8 give us a clue.
Here's the offensive sow herself. Nice pic, Sue! Sheesh, comb your hair.
Baloney! It is a sad for America.
I keep asking teh gays — why 2? Why not 3 or 4 or more? Why not father/daughter?
When “marriage” has no meaning, it has no meaning.
> “This is a wonderful day for America,” she told everyone..
Not hardly.
Encouraging large swathes of the population to indulge delusional mental disorders and perverted sexual fetishes is bad for any nation.
How does history view Caligula?
Your mom needs to consult a lawyer
Burning a Constitutional Republic to the ground is somehow a “wonderful day for American” for a Marxist like this writer.
The promoters must really hate American society. The writer's gushing 'but you could tell they already knew it' tells much about where the writer's brain is located.
When this opens the doors to more sin that defies the dictates of God's Ten Commandments the World will officially be on its way to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Very old news, unfortunately. I’m sure there’s a statute of limitations that ran up. She’s not hard up for money, and a pension isn’t a reliable source of retirement income anymore.
It would still be great to poke it in the eye of that old communist rag sheet
Amen!
My mother is an old-world soul. She’d rather let karma continue to drag it into the pit.
Her sneering remark about the “refuse to live and let live doctrine” should be applied to the sodomite revolutionist instead. They refuse to let *us* live without imposing their immorality on us by trying to coerce us to approve of their filthy lifestyle.
History will view the modern sodomite madness in the same light they view the marriage of NERO to his slave.
I’ve not found anywhere where two men have gotten married in history, other than Nero.
The only reason historians of the time mentioned it is because it was something new to talk about.
If I’m wrong, I’m sure some real historian will correct me.
I don’t give a rip how “history” will see it. I care how GOD sees it ... and I know He’s not amused. Not even a little bit.
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