Waiting for those lines to plateau...
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
this wikipedia paragraph from the same-sex marriage entry is lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Nepal
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol
― baby i know that you think i'm just a lion (schlump), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Glenn Beck leaves O'Reilly flabbergasted.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Glenn Beck needs to leave this Earth
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Freedom to Marry is reporting that Judge Walker has lifted the stay on his ruling striking down Proposition 8, meaning couples are free to marry in California.
http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/judge-removes-stay-on-prop-8-ruling-gay-couples-can-marry.html
― next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return (Jesse), Thursday, 12 August 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
whoohoo!
― lene lovage (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 August 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
That's good news.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 August 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Who wants to marry me? I flip a mean ham omelet.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in. I get paid tomorrow, so this is good timing.
― next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return (Jesse), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll defrost the ham.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the best marriage proposal exchange I've ever known.
― next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return (Jesse), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
He's removed the stay but only effective at the end of the day on the 18th.
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Shush! We're talking ham here.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
In anticipation, people were lined up outside City Hall in SF. :(
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:13 PM (41 minutes ago)
THATS JUST WRONG
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
beck killing it there! add it to the examples i said upthread
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
esp. love when he says abortion is killing <3 <3 <3
― plax (ico), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah he is a atrocious human being you won't get an argument from me; my point is it's weirdly gratifying to watch someone who's wrong about everything be otm about something you care about
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i get u
― plax (ico), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I... God help me but I kinda like it when he says, "Will the gays come to get us??"
― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haha no shame needed that was just objectively hilarious
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
O'Reilly didn't like that "Thomas Jefferson" business.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/i_love_having_non-marital_sex_with_you.php
― plax (ico), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I like your comment there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
this is how i roll
― plax (ico), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
aaand... they're blocked again in California
― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm glad someone is finally thinking of the children in this debate (children = sexless middle aged adults)
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
opposing arguments need more SCARY SPONTANEOUS CAPITALIZATION if they want to up their cred imo
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
btw this is a lot of reading (and it is referring to Ireland, not the US), but the comments section underneath is totally amazing and altogether this is pretty much the best thing I have ever read about Gay Marriage
http://theantiroom.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/not-the-marrying-kind-ready
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
except when noted dumbass una mu11aly shows up at the end
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm. this is v. interesting
Of the many smart moves Judge Walker made in his 136-page opinion last week, the smartest was his unveiling of a central hiding-in-plain-sight fact: the change in society’s expectations about what partnership in a marriage entails. “Marriage between a man and a woman was traditionally organized based on presumptions of a division of labor along gender lines” until recently, he said. “Men were seen as suited for certain types of work and women for others. Women were seen as suited to raise children and men were seen as suited to provide for the family.”Judge Walker cited the advent of no-fault divorce (which New York is about to become the 50th state to adopt) as a marker of how the legal system no long prescribes roles for marriage partners based on their sex. Evidence at the trial, he said, showed “the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles.” As a result, the judge continued, “gender is not relevant to the state in determining spouses’ obligations to each other and to their dependents,” and “gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”Judge Walker’s conclusion was that Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment confining marriage to opposite-sex couples, “thus enshrines in the California Constitution a gender restriction that the evidence shows to be nothing more than an artifact of a foregone notion that men and women fulfill different roles in civil life.” Proposition 8 “mandates that men and women be treated differently based only on antiquated and discredited notions of gender.”
Judge Walker cited the advent of no-fault divorce (which New York is about to become the 50th state to adopt) as a marker of how the legal system no long prescribes roles for marriage partners based on their sex. Evidence at the trial, he said, showed “the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles.” As a result, the judge continued, “gender is not relevant to the state in determining spouses’ obligations to each other and to their dependents,” and “gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”
Judge Walker’s conclusion was that Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment confining marriage to opposite-sex couples, “thus enshrines in the California Constitution a gender restriction that the evidence shows to be nothing more than an artifact of a foregone notion that men and women fulfill different roles in civil life.” Proposition 8 “mandates that men and women be treated differently based only on antiquated and discredited notions of gender.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/hiding-in-plain-sight/
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Walker is better than me.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I mean he's among the large crowd of those who are better than me, but he's better than them too.
looks like Prop 8 is doomed
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
If you presume that Protect Marriage will be found not to have standing, but is that such a sure thing?
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
not a rhetorical question, necessarily
I'll defer to the more experienced legal scholars around here, but I'm unaware of any precedent where private citizens have been authorized to represent the State in court. Can't really conceive of a feasible legal argument that would allow that.
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
although to be clear I would prefer that this case went to court and Prop 8 was rejected on constitutional grounds, which would be better in the long-run for establishing a legal precedent against this kind of thing
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Absolutely. From what I've seen, the 9th Circuit would surely affirm Judge Walker's decision, and then it would be off to the SCOTUS, which would be nice.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
not gay marriage, but this is a big deal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10gays.html?_r=1
― max skim (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 September 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ 10gays.html
― max skim (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 September 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
My girlfriend's college-age cousin wrote this:http://iowaindependent.com/42714/same-sex-marriage-in-iowano-harm-to-traditional-marriage-study-finds
:D
― jaymc, Friday, 10 September 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, i totally missed the whole maine going back on it thing :(
― dayo reckoning (The Reverend), Friday, 10 September 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
bumping to link my #1 bro J's blog post re gay marriage and the church
http://presweldevotional.blogspot.com/2010/08/being-on-left-side-of-history-same-sex.html
― the devil is in the dinosaur bones (will), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
not exactly a timely bump but
― the devil is in the dinosaur bones (will), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen, bring on the roffles:
http://unicornbooty.com/2011/04/nom-leader-announces-support-of-marriage-equality/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
INSPIRGAYTION
― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Friday, 8 April 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Full statement here:
http://louisjmarinelli.com/politics/i-now-support-full-marriage-equality
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link