I think the gay marriage issue is settled and saying you’re against it is easy because no political activity will reverse it and is meaningless because corporate elites and the judiciary will block any countermoves to protect the First Amendment rights of those opposed to gay marriage.
What makes gay marriage an awful thing are the First Amendment implications. We have already seen Brendan Eich lose his job as CEO of Mozilla for opposing gay marriage and Atlanta Fire Chief Kevin Cochran losing his job for off the job comments related to his religious faith over homosexuality.
This week the Oregon Commissioner of Labor fined the Christian bakery owners 135-thousand bucks and told them to not speak about the case anymore.
I don’t think the Republicans care a fig about the tyranny being imposed because of how the “Conservative Christian Republican” Governors Mike Pence of Indiana and Asa Hutchinson backed away from religious freedom laws to protect religious people from LGBT attack earlier this year.
Those guys were afraid of the major corporations opposing the religious freedom laws and they backed down plain and simple.
F the Guardian. Hey, you bloody limeys, Happy Independence Day mates!
Any Republican that caves on this is dead to me.
I never understand some things:
1. When did it become cool to be gay?
2. How did homosexuals get so.much power?
3. When did liberals decide to embrace homosexual marriage and why? If you go back and check the vote on the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, you will see that many liberals were willing to say that marriage was a man and a woman. Believing that was mainstream and non controversial then. Now that belief gets you tarred and feathered.
4. Why do the criteria for the legal views change? In 2013 the Supreme Court ruled that marriage was to be defined by the states. So the federal government had to recognize homosexual marriage from states which allowed it. But now in 2015, the criteria are now reversed, and now each state must allow homosexual marriage because now marriage is defined st the federal level not the state level. States no longer are allowed to define marriage. Why did the criteria change and what is the legal justification.??? Was this contradiction addressed in the recent court case, or do liberals really not care about legal procedures and legal justification or consistency in legal reasoning???
The real question is whether we will continue our downward spiral. Or was this an overreach which will cause the pendulum to swing back at least for a little while.
Senate “leader” McConnell mumble something about law of the land, nothing can be done.
As long as this sick deviancy stands, America is dead to me. No more flying the flag, no more support, no more allegiance, no more lifting a finger for this nation. As long as this country continues to wallow and celebrate such depravity and outright evil, my interest in its preservation is absolutely nil.
I thought Congress could overturn a SCOTUS decision by legislation and a vote? Am I wrong?
It will stand. It will be built upon so that anything at all goes. With the coerced universal availability of abortion there is no Marxist reason to ban any sort of coupling at all, man or beast or any sort of prior relationship notwithstanding.
All the other things that people argued about ‘slippery slope’ the pro-regressive are for it. You name it, if it degrades human kind they are for it. Incremental mass destruction of civilization. Many have stated that man (civilization) is the enemy.
Don’t think progs no longer want to euthanize the elderly and the “weak”, abort, control population or greatly reduce population or nearly eliminate man-kind, selective breeding (children of progs/elite) limit overall births, harvest organs, fetal stem cell experiments....incest, beastiality, infanticide...???
you name it.
THere is a progressive that supports it.
And they will never be happy even if they could have everything they want. Its not about happiness...its not about individual pursuit of happiness or libery..or fairness...its about control and power.
I think that the Republicans said the same thing, or words to that effect about obamacare also. You see where obamacare is now. They had the chance to get rid of it and stabbed Cruz in the back. Anyone who believes anything the republicans say is not wise.
It isn’t Gay Marriage, it’s restoring States Rights.
The Gay Marriage part of the SCOTUS Decision was a distraction, a shiny thing that everyone fixated on.
Nothing but a slight of hand used as a reason to eviscerate the Tenth Amendment and begin the attack on Religious Freedom Rights included in the First Amendment, their next Target.
The States should be the final Arbitor on Gay Marriage, just as they currently are regarding Incestuous and Polygamous Marriage. While all States prohibit Polygamous Marriage, Laws pertaining to Incestuous Marriage vary from State to State.
Individual States also mandate Age of Consent and Age of Consent for Marriage. The SCOTUS Ruling will require a National Standard as well.
What has happened is that Americans who disagreed with certain State Laws HAD the option of moving to another State that they felt followed their Beliefs such as Faith, Political and Societal. Now the SCOTUS has robbed them of that choice to a degree.
We are no better than the Old Soviet Union in that regard.