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Clarence Thomas facepalm: Oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop
The American Thinker ^ | 12/06/17 | Erin Mersino

Posted on 12/06/2017 8:43:11 AM PST by pgkdan

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To: jmaroneps37
This will lose 5-4 as Roberts who committed an easily researched and established FELONY by adopting his children from the Irish Free State which REQUIRES Irish Free State Citizenship of those trying to adopt an Irish Free State born child.

The kids turn 18 next year, at which point any adoption irregularities become moot.

61 posted on 12/06/2017 10:03:47 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Red Badger

Because they are all politically motivated cowards.


62 posted on 12/06/2017 10:07:58 AM PST by LTC.Ret
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To: pgkdan

Praying for a few liberals to retire... spend some time with their families...


63 posted on 12/06/2017 10:10:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Cakes cannot be homosexual. Being gay is not a requirement to participate in a same sex wedding.

When you marry, it severs all previous ties if you live in a community property state. I know a guy who almost married his hunting buddy because he thought he was going to die and didn’t want his ex-wife to lay a claim on the hunting land (it had been in her family but he got it in the divorce). Luckily, he recovered.


64 posted on 12/06/2017 10:18:17 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I seriously doubt that they postponed their mutual buggery until after the ceremony.


65 posted on 12/06/2017 10:20:17 AM PST by pingman (More WINNING!)
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To: PapaBear3625
The kids turn 18 next year, at which point any adoption irregularities become moot.

Thanks for this info. I've been wondering how long they could use those kids against Roberts, while reading through this thread.

66 posted on 12/06/2017 10:21:39 AM PST by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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To: AppyPappy

Well if you are introducing the concept that some same sex marriages are going to occur among straights and not homosexuals, then that throws a monkey wrench into this whole discussion..............


67 posted on 12/06/2017 10:22:11 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I can see it now, two guys agree to get “married” to each other, while having girlfriends in order to get the tax benefits.


68 posted on 12/06/2017 10:24:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: libertylover
No one should be forced to do business with anyone (except utilities, etc.)

Should a fashion designer be forced by law to make a dress for Mrs. Trump?

This. Exactly. If you actually take the time to read through the transcript of the oral arguments in the case, you will see that they spent a lot of time trying to get around the huge mess they'd made of our rights with the pernicious concept of "public accomodations". If they really want to bring some sanity back to the law, they'd drop that entire line of reasoning.

Any business out there should be able to say, "I will not sell to people with green eyes", or any other thing they want. The public can take care of those businesses quite well I suspect. I certainly wouldn't patronize a place that wouldn't sell to blacks. I suspect a lot of other folks would feel the same way.

69 posted on 12/06/2017 10:24:58 AM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They definitely will. Marriage is the best way to transfer assets. Imagine if you could marry your only child before your death. No inheritance taxes.


70 posted on 12/06/2017 10:25:26 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: pgkdan

Nobody has a privileged right to force someone else to speak on behalf of them.

You can’t even force your Congressmen and Senators to speak on behalf of you. And they are elected and paid to represent you.


71 posted on 12/06/2017 10:26:00 AM PST by savedbygrace
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To: Red Badger

they only have bean pie


72 posted on 12/06/2017 10:29:16 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Alberta's Child
Oral arguments are just a public spectacle. The real arguments are made in the written legal briefs. That’s why Clarence Thomas never asks any questions. He has said these oral arguments are a waste of a judge’s time.

I agree with him, though I feel that there is a public benefit these days, now that it is pretty easy to actually read through the oral arguments. I think it's a good idea to have at least some idea of their reasoning processes made available, rather than the decision being largely an opaque box. An informed citizenry is a Good Thing&mark;.

Also, I really would be interested in hearing what he might have wanted to ask.

73 posted on 12/06/2017 10:31:36 AM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: pgkdan

Oh in some way I hope the supreme court rules this case wholly wrong, and what do I mean by WRONG?

Well if they go against the Cake shop this means many great things for us! Well not for society at large because any shop owner will be forced to do things they don’t want to do and liberty will be curtailed. But good for us because we can stick this decision to liberals and FORCE THEM the make things they would never want to.

Okay so here is some examples!

Bake a birthday cake that looks like a MAGA HAT from an insanely liberal baker.

Force any liberal artist who does commissions to make pro-trump art work.

Hire an landscaping company who hires illegals to trim a hedge into a wall with the words “build the wall” into the side of it.

Plus in any state that has one party consent recording laws you go in ahead of time with someone else and get video of the artist hating on Trump, then later you request the artwork and also get them whining, then later when and always they deliver an “inferior product” based on YOUR standards, you can say they are trying to shirk the supreme court decision. And they will never be able to get the product JUST RIGHT enough for you!

Plenty of mischief to be had if the Supreme court rules that you can force a christian baker to “BAKE THE F###ING! CAKE”


74 posted on 12/06/2017 10:37:45 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Sorry, Charlie. Court packing means creating new positions to fill, not refilling vacant ones.


75 posted on 12/06/2017 10:40:39 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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Right there in the argument. Compel someone to participate in that which they hold to be the antithesis of their beliefs. In other words the government holds a gun to the head of a citizen and makes them do and say what the government tells them to do and say.

When the radical Muslims capture a group of infidels and approach them one at a time and have them recite the Koran from memory or they are executed instantly, that’s what this is.


76 posted on 12/06/2017 10:44:12 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Now, that’s food for thought... tell the baker/florist/photog that you’re friends with privileges, but certainly not gay.


77 posted on 12/06/2017 10:51:13 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: aquila48

[ “Why don’t gays ever go to Muslim bakeries”

Perhaps the baker should rename his bakery, “Halal Bakery Shoppe”. ]

Funny how muslims can express and retain what the left consider “bigoted values” but dare a single christian to be true to some of the MILDER forms of the same beliefs and KATIE BAR THE ###### DOOR!


78 posted on 12/06/2017 10:52:51 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: aquila48

“Mohammed’s Muffin Shop”


79 posted on 12/06/2017 10:58:38 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
You can't have your cake and suck it too.

Congratulations sir! You won the Internets today!

80 posted on 12/06/2017 11:02:17 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Go ahead and vote for Roy Moore. The liberals & GOPe hate Alabama anyway.)
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