Peaceful Anarchy posted:

To them they are. Because, despite their arguments, the opposition to abortion isn't about " sanctity of life" but rather an attack against the sexual revolution and the idea that people are free to have sex and love the person they choose. It's about punishing and disapproving loose women just like the opposition to gay marriage is about punishing and disapproving homosexuals.

I hope they ride this train all the way though their meteoric fall because it not only highlights the bare animus that underlies the opposition to homosexuality, which is clear to almost everyone at this point, it highlights the bare animus that underlies their opposition to abortion, which is sadly not as clear to a lot of people any more.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This is just like a fine wine from Tony Perkins

Chokes McGee posted:

We need more potato jokes in politics these days. Come back, Dan Quayle! Come back!

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Bad to good justices:

Alito (total shithead)
Scalia (mostly total shithead, and publically mean about it too)
Thomas (shithead, but consistent about it)
Roberts (shithead, but concerned about his "legacy")
Kennedy (shithead)
Breyer (major conflict of interest due to ownership of ice cream company?)
Kagan (could be worse)
Ginsburg (great, but she's being selfish w/r/t political realities of presidential appointments instead of retiring)
Sotomayor ()

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Please elaborate on Scalia not being as big a shithead as Alito. Not doubting you, just looking for specific examples.

RZApublican posted:

Mods, please change my name to "counterfeit marriage".

SubponticatePoster posted:

Scalia can be somewhat decent on 4A issues. Also from all accounts he and Sotomayor get along well, whereas Alito belonged to a group at their shared alma mater that was dedicated to keeping minorities out of the law school.

I hate to say it but the point goes to the lich.

alnilam posted:

I like to imagine Idaho politics is just potato jokes and potato rhetoric 24/7, cause potatoes is mostly all i know about Idaho.

That and marriage equality

quote:

I want to severely restrict the Idaho Department of W-ealth and Hell-fare.

alnilam posted:

I like to imagine Idaho politics is just potato jokes and potato rhetoric 24/7, cause potatoes is mostly all i know about Idaho.

That and marriage equality

Chokes McGee posted:

We need more potato jokes in politics these days.

cruft posted:

I bet you could whip something up

Idiot Kicker posted:

Idaho politics are loving baffling. The 4 Republican candidates for governor (Butch Otter and some other people who have no chance ever) had a debate question about gay marriage, and Harley Brown was the voice of reason.
Harley Brown is known for zingers like this:


Brown also called helmet laws "vile" and supports a state militia that does not answer to the federal government, only to the governor (in this case, him).

SubponticatePoster posted:

Scalia can be somewhat decent on 4A issues. Also from all accounts he and Sotomayor get along well, whereas Alito belonged to a group at their shared alma mater that was dedicated to keeping minorities out of the law school.

I hate to say it but the point goes to the lich.

smilingfish posted:

As a law student I genuinely liked reading his opinions because they were well-written and sometimes even entertaining, despite the almost invariably bad opinions.

quote:

The gay Nazis label was simultaneously an attempt to tie the new pro-Europe camp in Kiev to the hated German Third Reich while also taking advantage of the growing acceptance of gay marriage in the West, particularly in the United States. "Putin has said homosexuality is not our values, and that sense of tolerance of homosexuality is not part of Euroasia," said Schmidt, who will be in Ukraine monitoring the May 25 elections that are being overseen by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Euroasia is the name for the empire Schmidt believes Putin is trying to construct. Schmidt says Putin is driven by the goal of rebuilding a Euroasian empire with Moscow as its capital. Putin also has written extensively on the subject of Euroasia, which would generally follow the geography of the former Soviet Union. Bringing Ukraine into Moscow's camp would be crucial to seeing that dream come to reality. Russian media also have called the Maidan square, where protests led to the demise of former pro-Russian Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, the "Gayeuromaidan," thus tying together Europe and the gay rights movement, writes Yale history professor and author Timothy Snyder in The New York Review of Books.

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A day after the state Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriages in the state, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza expanded his ruling striking down a constitutional ban to also include the prohibition on clerks issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Justices had ruled Wednesday that Piazza’s decision on the gay marriage ban did not change that license law.

Piazza also rejected a request to suspend his ruling, saying there’s no evidence the state would be harmed by allowing gay marriages to continue.

“The same cannot be said of the plaintiffs and other same-sex couples who have not been afforded the same measure of human dignity, respect and recognition by this state as their similarly situated, opposite sex counterparts,” Piazza wrote. “A stay would operate to further damage Arkansas families and deprive them of equal access to the rights associated with marriage status in this state.”

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s office said he would appeal and was asking the high court to suspend Piazza’s latest order. McDaniel, a Democrat, recently said he supports gay marriage but would continue defending the state’s ban in court.

“This order clarifies what we understood Judge Piazza had attempted to do last week, and it does not change our posture of seeking a stay from the Arkansas Supreme Court and pursuing an appeal,” McDaniel spokesman Aaron Sadler said.

Pulaski County, one of two counties that had been issuing licenses before the high court’s decision, said it planned to resume issuing licenses to same-sex couples immediately. The other, Washington County, was not issuing licenses Thursday.

Sweeney Tom posted:

Arkansas judge struck down all Arkansas state laws banning marriage equality.

cruft posted:

Utah (I know, but still), Idaho, Arkansas.

Is this one of those things where the more rigid the tree is, the easier it is to get knocked over by wind?

AYC posted:

Basically everyone except Montana and South Dakota either allow gay marriage or are being sued in court for not allowing it.

AGirlWonder posted:

Maybe New Orleans keeps LA from being totally "straight."

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

There's not much beyond the headline other than this eye searing rainbow scarf. I hope it's real and not a color balance mistake.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

quote:

The Liberty Counsel yesterday filed a brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in which they claim that Michigan must not allow same-sex marriage because it would somehow increase the incidence of STDs.

Not only is there no bodily good or function toward which two same-sex bodies can coordinate, but there are in fact inherent harms associated with same-sex unions. For example, homosexual males are at exponentially higher risk of developing a variety of sexually transmitted diseases, and have increased risks of developing various cancers and medical conditions because of the nature of same-sex sex. The personal, social and financial costs of these homosexual-specific health problems concern not just those who engage in homosexual activity, but also the larger community of citizens who help provide services and who must bear part of the burdens imposed by the health challenges. It would be rational for the voters of Michigan to seek to minimize the deleterious effects of these conditions on public health, safety and welfare by affirming that marriage in Michigan remains the union of one man and one woman.

quote:

not only is there no bodily good or function toward which two same-sex bodies can coordinate

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Liberty Counsel sees a GAY PANDEMIC if Michigan okays gay marriage


https://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/051414-Brief-Amicus-Michigan-Marriage.pdf

Spalec posted:

I don't quite understand the 'Gays have STDs! That's why we want to stop them indulging in a ritual that promotes monogamy and committing to one person for life'

But I guess they can't just say 'Ewwww, gays are icky!' anymore.

twodot posted:

This seems to fit into the standard Republican stance of "If we make activity X (which we think is bad) safer, more people will do X, thus we must make X more dangerous!".