its looking like a big yes in Ireland, so uh come to Ireland to get gay married if u like I guess
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 May 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
(Actual welcome will be less equivocal)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 23 May 2015 10:40 (nine years ago) link
yeah we've only started on the tourism literature an hour ago it needs work granted
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 May 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
@AlbertBrooks Congratulations to Ireland. Or as I like to call it Fire Ireland.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/11/us-usa-gaymarriage-north-carolina-idUSKBN0OR1YX20150611
legislature overruled the governor to allow opt-outs for officials
― j., Thursday, 11 June 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Annnd that's it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/614433371310194688
The opinion, written by Kennedy. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
the IRONY of this coming a day after jennicet gutierrez getting shouted down
i guess that's that though, homophobia solved
― lex pretend, Friday, 26 June 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
Good timing. That's impressive showmanship.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 26 June 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
xp people who attack their allies deserve to get shouted down
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 26 June 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
"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
― lex pretend, Friday, 26 June 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
This is good news for a rough day
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 June 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
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?
― goole, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― goole, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
and he teaches at my university
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
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
― j., Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
I think she'll resign now — she'll be a more effective martyr outside the pokey.
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
she'll also earn more from the organizations that will sponsor her speaking tour
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Good thing. She's about to get fired this morning.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
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."
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
otm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
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"
― big fat rascal (will), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ccdtTNzx1r14o02o1_400.gif
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
How is she not fired and/or in jail yet
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
her position was elected?
― j., Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
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/
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
County clerks are elected? wtf
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Welcome to flyover country, I guess. (I'd be interested to know the ratio of appointed to elected in the US.)
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Here in King County, WA (pop. 2 million+), we elect our elections clerk, so not just flyover country.
― best beloved george benson (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uncucumbered/want_kentucky_clerk_kim_davis_fired_rowan_county_officials_are_trying
― j., Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if there are any other jobs she could get that involve filing paperwork
― j., Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
She could always open up a bakery. That seems to be a hot industry for bigots lately.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
when will the homos respect the straights rights to discriminate against them come on it's only fair
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Her whole office has been summoned to a contempt hearing: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kim-davis-rowan-staff-ordered-court
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
is someone going to explain the separation of church and state to them
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
"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
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
explain it to me – I'm marrying the filthy motherfuckers
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
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?"
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
"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/
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
can't someone else just do the job for her? i don't get the fascination with this halfwit hick
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
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.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
only incompetent person in this scenario is you, fuckface
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
that judge thinks his turds are truthbombs
― Aimless, Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
why in the fuck did they throw this woman in jail argh so dumb
― goole, Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link