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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Seeing as how Obama didn't close Guantanamo when he said he would, allowed the extension of the Patriot act and tax cuts for the rich, pre-emtively caved in and put out garbage healthcare "reform" that was basically written by the for-profit healthcare industry, still has troops in Afghanistan and is bombing the gently caress out of middle eastern countries with flying death robots unmanned US military drones, and was the first president to ever assassinate an American citizen, yeah then he really hasn't done enough and is still terrible regardless of politicized declarations of support for something that should have been supported long ago.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 06:53 on May 10, 2012

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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I'm willing to bet that the stunt they pulled will end up hurting the company, as their declaration of opposition to gay marriage only brought out the most hardcore of retards who would actually go out and publicly support gay bashing by buying loving fast food. After all this dies down, the company will have permanently lost a very large group of customers who sure as hell aren't going to be caught dead supporting an openly bigoted fast food chain, especially one that pulls very public stunts like this.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Hey pretty soon we'll be down to Kyoon style posts where he'll just mash out a huge rambling diatribe and then source it with google search results.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Wow, that's pretty awesome for all those vets that were let go because of DADT. I'm guessing if the ACLU had never gotten involved this would have never happened either?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Platform of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i posted:

Preamble
The abiding values of the Democratic Party are liberty, social justice, compassion and respect for the dignity and worth of the individual. These principles must always be protected. As the party of the people, we Democrats commit ourselves to these values.

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the right to equal relationship recognition including but not limited to equal marriage rights both at the State and Federal level.

Haha, look at this word salad which basically amounts to "we are huge pieces of cowardly poo poo".

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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evilweasel posted:

...how so, that appears to be a call for gay marriage at both the state and federal level? I don't get it.

Oh my bad, at first glance it looked like one of those tortured non-statements politicians make after the fact to try to rationalize things like sweeping the marriage vote under the carpet like the Hawaii democrats just apparently did.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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greatn posted:

But straight men don't objectify men as much, so it is someone being divergent from the "norm" and this threatens your position of power or privilege because...

Because those straight men don't even want to imagine being treated the way they treat women.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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All Of The Dicks posted:

Well, to be fair, having and bringing to term accidental babies is pretty much the definition of irresponsible. It is basically failing to take any of the steps for preparing to have or not have a baby. You can't really argue that a high schooler getting pregnant or something like that IS a responsible thing to do.

Well, to be fair™©™™™ eating all of the dicks, the divorce rate is near 50% so your observation here doesn't really hold much weight here.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Chances are this is the best that they could realistically do, but it's not like we congratulate students for getting a C-. It's like: "Wow, you're almost in the 21st century". *golf clap*

If this was in fact just a PR stunt then yeah gently caress them, though.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Welp, looks like Oklahoma really will have to ban all marriages now! I mean, if they're going to be consistent about denying rights and benefits like with the whole national guard debacle.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/27/oklahoma-s-governor-denies-marriage-benefits-to-national-guard-members.html

http://www.newson6.com/story/24543033/lawmakers-consider-preventing-all-marriage-in-oklahoma

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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VitalSigns posted:

laws that require schools to inform parents if the school finds out the child is gay

Where the hell do these exist? Good god that is fowl.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Is a man not entitled to the greasy chicken sandwich flowing down his corpulent brow?

But seriously, gently caress Chick-A-Filet forever, they don't deserve to exist as a business after all the blatant, in-your-face homophobic crap that they pulled.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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What the gently caress is up with this thread? We have people desperately defending their right to stuff their gullet by way of a corporation that was heavily involved in homophobic activity, only they maybe choose not to? What? And then "calling out" a dude who thinks it's inappropriate? It'd be hard to stoop much lower here.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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quote:

it would have only taken 33 years before inter-racial marriage would have been legal in all 50 states.

Man, what the gently caress.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Captain Mog posted:

There is literally no connection between abortion and gay marriage. None. The fact that they try to link them together like that is pretty insulting to me for some reason. I guess because it's so blatant what they're trying to do.

Actually according to people who have completely and totally swallowed all traces of the punch bowl it is.

Because it's all God's Law Y'all!! Yeeeeehaw!! :banjo: :banjo: :banjo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQ6MRHpCGk

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Aren't medicaid provisions decided by individual states though? New York I know in particular has a godawful system where various private companies provide the insurance and the government pays for it. Transgender care in NY of any kind is also specifically denied through their medicaid.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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SubponticatePoster posted:

No, administration of Medicaid is handled by individual states but the Feds decide what is/is not covered AFAIK. Otherwise you'd have red states refusing to cover anything at all.

That can't be right, because MediCal, the medicaid system in California does cover transgender issues.
http://transgenderlawcenter.org/issues/health/medical-fact-sheet

While in New York it definitely does not.
https://www.glaad.org/blog/despite-medicaid-ban-transgender-healthcare-ny-health-commissioner-says-hes-working-hard

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Only 40 days of fasting? But that's well below the holy power quotient to affect Supreme Court Judges. They'll need to add in some holy american idols, like these good folks did:

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Pope Guilty posted:

What... what am I looking at here, aside from a reenactment of Exodus on Wall Street?

A while back a bunch of Christianists thought it would be a good idea to pray for the US economy... channeling their prayer though a literal golden bull idol (the one on Wall Street) without the slightest hint of irony.

http://wonkette.com/407370/remember-when-these-christians-prayed-to-this-golden-bull

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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So In this "fast" I guess it's OK to gorge on multiple value meals a day as long as they're consecrated by Christ or something?

"By the Holy Power I cast the demons OUT of this burger!"

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Soup, crackers, and vegetables doesn't exactly sound like any form of starvation or torture or me. Maybe the parents were getting up at arms because it wasn't MAH VALUE MEAL

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Otteration posted:

I'm guessing the assenting opinion writers are sick of their jobs and just want to take off their robes and retire to Key West--maybe live in a secluded, private resort.

If this is their opinion here, then EVERY argument they make on EVERY case going forward MUST be, "We don't want to be the heroes…we're not the arbiters…it's up to the people!"

The whole disaster of an opinion almost seems like a slap in the face to SCOTUS, for sitting on their hands and taking so long to make a decision on the issue.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Twelve by Pies posted:

This is why they think condoms, oral, anal, masturbation, gay sex, what have you, are sinful, because it is wasting semen instead of giving it the possibility of reaching an egg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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So are all of these hand-slaps and fines going to come out automatically, or do people have to start filing motions of contempt in each of these counties and/or against Roy Moore?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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At least they've come as far as admitting that segregation was wrong. I think we can call that progress in the Land of the Eternally Fought Civil War.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Y'know, I think this is an important fight that's going down in Alabama right now, because it's a slippery slope until the state starts allowing things like marrying your first cousin and----------------- OH.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I wasn't old enough to understand any of this stuff at the time, but was signing DOMA and DODT into law an actual plan Democrats had to keep gay rights from sliding even further back? Or were they just signing onto them because they agreed with them (or for other reasons)? I can't imagine many politicians giving a crap about gay rights back then, much less having some sort of master plan for keeping The Gays out of the proverbial shitter.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Mar 7, 2015

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I don't believe Clinton signed DOTA into law back then, didn't he know what this would do to the Warcraft community?? This is what I get for posting without having slept properly.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Thinking of gay marriage as a sign of the apocalypse is more of a convenience thing for crazy people, I believe, because they really really want the apocalypse to come and this is the next cool thing to latch onto that will supposedly bring it about. The end of the world has been "predicted" roughly a zillion times now, and this is just yet another opportunity for those who have less than a firm grasp on reality to try to feel good about themselves.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Mecca-Benghazi posted:

Why are marriages in the Baha'i faith okay but not Islamic ones?? :psyduck:

It's just to discredit the obvious true leader of the muslim people: Barack - the Islamic Shock - Hussein in the Membrane: Superallah Obama.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I would agree if Prestor was saying conservatives are like this and conservatives are like that, but that's not what's happening. Prestor is specifically describing the much smaller subset of right-wing authoritarians, who are known for being some of the most intractable shitheads on the planet. These are the people who are the "loud minority" of conservatives who feel the need to throw a tantrum about every little thing or post on freerepublic.com

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 22, 2015

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Mr. Nice! posted:

[Ask] me about being raised in a cult so crazy I chopped off my dick. Welcome to Christian America!

You've got to be kidding me.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I hope my Chihuahua driven Jesus Takes the Wheel bus makes it safely to the

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Did a transgendered person kill Hasters entire family or something? Or is he one of those people like Duckmonster who may have gone on a date with someone who was trans once while not realizing it, and decided it was a good time to start freaking out about that possibility.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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BougieBitch posted:

Can we at least hold out hope that it was an April Fools' joke?

The gay pizza porn site is also, of course, just a clever April Fools joke by the actual owner.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Sharkie posted:

"Well I'll just turn on my computer and use a web browser to find companies that match my valu.....oh"


Yeah I understand the appeal of forcing businesses to be upfront about their bigotry, but historically, it doesn't cause it to go away, and as a queer person living in a small town in the bible belt......

Seriously, if we had let the Free Market take care of integration, you can be sure there would still be places that had segregated proms and.... yeah. :(

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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From now on every time some bigoted jackass makes a fool of themselves in public, we need to start a GoFundMe immediately, on their behalf of course.*
*All proceeds go to Planned Parenthood

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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When the time for the Supreme Court ruling rolls around these people are going to bankrupt themselves while GoFundMe rolls around in their cash.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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This looks like something a crazy person/unmedicated schizophrenic would make, so... yeah

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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Yeah that should be a definite sign that your ideology is a dying wasteland when almost every corporation that matters wants nothing to do with it.

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