FAUXTON posted:

Yes.

FAUXTON posted:

Yes.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

You have to remember that they believe their opinions match those of a being who is Correct by default. However much they claim otherwise, it is literally beyond their understanding that their beliefs are opinions and not facts ingrained into the very fabric of the universe. Like one of the things you posted earlier, it's a fantastic way to avoid facing up to being wrong about anything.

jivjov posted:

Well even by the metric of a correct by default deity...I've yet to see a good reason to justify using that as the basis for policy and law that applies to non-believers of that faith

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Americans protest gay marriage by eating fried chicken.

jivjov posted:

One of those same guys from my last photo just replied with the following, and I honestly think it broke me a little bit:

quote:

Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness'


CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention Thursday night, commanding the ultraprogressive minions in attendance to help him “destroy Jesus and usher in a new age of liberal darkness that shall reign o’er the earth for a thousand years.”

The thunderous 45-minute address—during which the president argued for a second term so that he could “finally kill Jesus once and for all, as well as all those who worship him”—was well received by the frenzied, wild-eyed audience, whose piercing chants of “Four more years!” and “Slaughter the believers!” echoed throughout the Time Warner Cable Arena.

“My fellow Americans and godless infidels, I command you to join me as we cast an endless pall of far-left evil across the hills and valleys of our nation!” Obama bellowed from the stage, as thousands in attendance moaned in compliance and gyrated their hips and groins in a lascivious dance. “Together, as a barbarian people forged by the wicked flames of irreligiosity and united by visions of a liberal dystopia, we will rise up as one to scorch the earth with boundless amorality.”

“The streets shall run red with the blood of forced sodomy, performed daily upon every American man, woman, and child!” the commander-in-chief shouted, froth forming around his mouth as the crowd threw hundreds of aborted fetuses onto the stage. “Die, Christians, die!”

Slamming his fists on the lectern until his hands began to bleed, Obama proceeded to lay out a “three-point plan of sin and lechery” for his second term. If reelected, the president said, he would begin by banning organized religion entirely—starting with Christianity—and burning all churches to the ground, preferably “with their wretched, Jesus-loving congregants still huddled inside like rats.”

As members of the audience violently tugged at their genitals and howled like sex-starved, atheist wolves, Obama stated that his administration would then seek to make free, taxpayer-funded abortions legal at any stage of pregnancy, even up to one full year after birth, in order to supply his newly created “federal stem-cell harvesting plants” with raw materials.

In addition, the cackling president vowed to “end traditional marriage as we know it” by passing legislation that would allow only homosexuals to raise children, a longtime Democratic policy goal.

“A glorious new age of sinister, unconstrained liberalism is dawning! Oh, dear Satan, I can feel it coursing through my veins at this very moment!” shrieked Obama, ripping off his shirt to reveal an ornate tattoo of a pentagram, with a different homosexual act positioned at each of the star’s five points. “Agnosticism, contempt for human life, and radical sexual experimentation shall rule the day! Any good, virtuous, family-values-oriented Christian Americans who seek to topple our magnificent liberal kingdom of eternal darkness will be powerless to stop us! We will crush them!”

Added Obama, “Thank you, may Satan reward you all, and may God tremble in fear at the United States of America!”

The president was then handed an unbaptized, orphaned newborn baby drenched in the blood of 666 slaughtered Christians, which he handed over to its new, gleefully squealing homosexual parents.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Onion outdoes itself




http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-help-us-destroy-jesus-and-start-a-new-age-of-29478

effectual posted:

If a god existed and didn't like gays it wouldn't make gays. QED. Unless it was a mean god(s) and just wanted to torture people, in which case we can't fight it anyway so don't worry.

Lol cults.

Cingulate posted:

There isn't really any detail on which the Bible has only one perspective.

Normatively, the Bible tends to prefer one-man-one-woman-forever, but it also explicitly allows a bunch of other stuff, including polygamy.

LLJKSiLk posted:

Chief Justice Roy Moore has been tying himself in knots in interviews trying to say that he doesn't support the decision and it is unconstitutional while also clarifying that he isn't telling people what to do but in his opinion they shouldn't do anything but please don't marry the gays. He's doing his best to leave himself legally free and clear while still pushing for probate judges to take one for the team.

30+ Alabama counties are ignoring him, and 22 are acting confused and refusing to issue licenses.

quote:

A North Texas county clerk said she has no intention of issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Hood County Clerk Katie Lang released a statement Tuesday saying that she agrees with Attorney General Ken Paxton's opinion on the Supreme Court's ruling.

"We find that although it fabricated a new constitutional right in 2015, the Supreme Court did not diminish, overrule, or call into question the First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion that formed the first freedom in the Bill of Rights in 1791. This newly invented federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage should peaceably coexist alongside longstanding constitutional and statutory rights, including the right to free exercise of religion and speech," she said.

Lang told the Texas Tribune that she was standing up for her religious liberty and that she believes "marriage is for one man and one woman because it did derive from the Bible."

She added that no same-sex couples in Hood County have tried to obtain a marriage license.

Paxton did issued a written opinion telling clerks with religious exemptions they don't have to issue the licenses. He also warned they could face fines or even lawsuits, but said he would have lawyers available at no-cost for those employees.

jivjov posted:

The best response I could formulate that wasn't just laughing in his face was "mathematics is not an issue of civil rights. If your neighbor believes that 2+2=3, he's factually and demonstrably incorrect"

quote:

Hood County Clerk Katie Lang

SedanChair posted:

Where the gently caress do people get off saying "marriage comes from the Bible" anyway? No it doesn't. Do they think that the ancient Sumerians and Chinese just went around hooking up or something? I mean, exclusively?

Oh that's right, these people aren't ready to admit that the world is old enough for the Sumerians and ancient Chinese to have existed.

Three Olives posted:

Just in case anyone wants to make a bunch of money suing the state of Texas...

SedanChair posted:

Oh that's right, these people aren't ready to admit that the world is old enough for the Sumerians and ancient Chinese to have existed.

OwlFancier posted:

Hahaha that's actually a funny idea that it's not just dinosaurs but actual documented human civilisations that are in contradiction with young earth creationism.

Mordiceius posted:

univbee posted:

You don't even have to go that far back; the first missionaries showed up in Japan in 1549 and there are much older writings from there than that which go into explicit detail about courtship rituals and the like. gently caress's sake, Native Americans would be even more recent.

A Pale Horse posted:

God those people are drama queens.

I guess I should be grateful for my inability to believe, I can't imagine going through life as scared on a daily basis as these people seem to be.

Mordiceius posted:

Yeah, it's loving crazy.

My wife used to be super religious just like them when she was younger too. When Katrina happened and her paster attributed it to divine vengeance for the gays and people in Louisiana living a life of sin, she stopped attending church regularly. What's worse is that her sister is married to a church man (he's only a music minister, but still). So basically my wife has to just remain fairly silent on a lot of these issues or else her family will basically disown her.

They were not pleased when she originally was dating me. To them I was a Satan-worshipping atheist that wanted to lead her astray.

alnilam posted:

lol, John Roberts dissented you idiot

pentyne posted:

Part of the reason why Japan and China didn't take to the missionaries like the Philippines and South America did. A bunch of priets/Jesuits show up and start with

"The world is only 4000 years old! God made it in 7 days and his son came to Earth to die for you (but on the other side of the world"

CommieGIR posted:

There's a time to keep family and there is a time to cut ties.

Its time for the latter.

Darko posted:

Don't forget that the Bible asupports marrying children too, since there is explicitly no age of consent given whatsoever,

Nonsense posted:

John Roberts Uber-Liberal.

seiferguy posted:

The prevailing thought now should be that with gay marriage legal and acceptable in the United States, it should be easier to pass laws to protect LGBTs, right? Specifically in workplace discrimination, homelessness (not sure how you can make laws to support ending that), and bullying.

I know it was talked about that there's plenty of issues facing LGBTs outside of marriage and there was a thread about it, and I think it's time America begins talking about them in hopes that people don't resort to "jeeze, you got your gay marriages, why do you want more?" type situations.

FAUXTON posted:

Court Clerks across the South declare homosexuality "Haram," cite first amendment in application of "Sharia Law" regarding issuance of marriage licenses.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

yes, the bible is a sentient creature that has opinions, and if it does not explicitly rule something out, that means it's a-ok. this is what all jews and christians believe.