Gay Marriage to Alfred: Your Thoughts

(Actual welcome will be less equivocal)

yeah we've only started on the tourism literature an hour ago it needs work granted

@AlbertBrooks
Congratulations to Ireland. Or as I like to call it Fire Ireland.

lol

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/11/us-usa-gaymarriage-north-carolina-idUSKBN0OR1YX20150611

legislature overruled the governor to allow opt-outs for officials

Annnd that's it.

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/614433371310194688

The opinion, written by Kennedy. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

the IRONY of this coming a day after jennicet gutierrez getting shouted down

i guess that's that though, homophobia solved

Good timing. That's impressive showmanship.

xp people who attack their allies deserve to get shouted down

"allies"

i don't have time to argue but jennicet was prob the only person in that room who shouldn't have shut the fuck up

This is good news for a rough day

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-fish/scalia-gets-it-pretty-muc_b_7880118.html

i could dig this up myself but how and when did stanley fish become a law professor?

i mean i know he's been writing about this stuff for a long time; i guess only really know him as a literary theorist.

and he teaches at my university

he's been housed w/ law ppl forever

news on the clerk who won't do her job:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/31/436431204/kentucky-clerk-s-request-for-a-stay-is-denied-by-u-s-supreme-court?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150831

that clerk is in contempt of court and seems hellbent on martyrdom. I guess we'll soon know how ardently she desires to go to jail.

I think she'll resign now — she'll be a more effective martyr outside the pokey.

she'll also earn more from the organizations that will sponsor her speaking tour

Good thing. She's about to get fired this morning.

Despite a Supreme Court ruling that compelled a Rowan County clerk in Kentucky to give out marriage licenses to gay couples, Kim Davis refused to comply once again on Tuesday morning by denying marriage licenses to everyone.

Ryland Barton, a reporter for Kentucky Public Radio, reports that Davis said she made the decision "under God's authority."

Randy Smith, leading the group supporting Davis, said he knows following their instruction to "stand firm" might mean Davis goes to jail.

"But at the end of the day, we have to stand before God, which has higher authority than the Supreme Court," he said.

otm

reminds me of Nixon intoning, "Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the greatest philosopher."

even odds she offered every hetero couple that exited her office door a "blessed day"

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ccdtTNzx1r14o02o1_400.gif

How is she not fired and/or in jail yet

her position was elected?

Stephen Prothero has a book coming out about how the subjects of culture war seem to always be about shit that conservatives will lose, b/c ultimately what fuels the aggrieved entitlement, rage, and straight ressentiment of modern rightwingers is the sense of loss and endangerment/martyrdom.

So they pick shit that's pretty much already been decided and moved on from by everybody else and make their last stand there, which is why you got all those assholes going after Sandra Fluke & contraception in 2012 and why they're attacking the 14th Amendment now. Of course, losing the cultural way tends to fuel them winning elections.

He gave a talk summarizing this stuff last year:

http://religionandpolitics.org/2014/12/10/do-liberals-always-win-an-interview-with-stephen-prothero/

County clerks are elected? wtf

Welcome to flyover country, I guess. (I'd be interested to know the ratio of appointed to elected in the US.)

Here in King County, WA (pop. 2 million+), we elect our elections clerk, so not just flyover country.

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uncucumbered/want_kentucky_clerk_kim_davis_fired_rowan_county_officials_are_trying

i wonder if there are any other jobs she could get that involve filing paperwork

She could always open up a bakery. That seems to be a hot industry for bigots lately.

when will the homos respect the straights rights to discriminate against them come on it's only fair

Her whole office has been summoned to a contempt hearing: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kim-davis-rowan-staff-ordered-court

is someone going to explain the separation of church and state to them

"They want us to accept their beliefs and their ways. But they won't accept our beliefs and our ways."

the logic, it is blinding

explain it to me – I'm marrying the filthy motherfuckers

Someone needs to ask her, on camera, "Since you obviously had no intention of issuing the licenses regardless of what the Court says, why did you bother with the pretense? Isn't it a sin to lie like that?"

"Also, what's the deal with those clothes?"

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kim-davis-found-in-contempt-and-taken-into-federal-custody-by-us-marshals/

can't someone else just do the job for her? i don't get the fascination with this halfwit hick

I have news for you - they can get even more dimwitted: http://gawker.com/dumbass-tennessee-judge-if-gays-can-get-married-no-on-1728447299

A local judge in Tennessee has denied a divorce to a man and woman on the grounds that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on same-sex marriage means only the Supreme Court can decide “what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”

Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Atherton is a huge Antonin Scalia stan, and apparently agreed with Scalia’s dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, where he argued that the justices were usurping states’ legislative power by recognizing gay couples’ right to marry.

Now, Atherton argues, I guess us stupid Tennesseans will have to wait for the Supreme Court to tell us what “divorce” is.

“The conclusion reached by this Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorce,” Atherton wrote.

only incompetent person in this scenario is you, fuckface

that judge thinks his turds are truthbombs

why in the fuck did they throw this woman in jail argh so dumb

fine her. remove her from service. order her subordinates to take over her duties. something else besides a political martyrdom