If you want to live in a theocracy there are several fine middle eastern countries you might consider living in.
It's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve...
Country is going to hell. Ruled by a bunch of gosh damn pansies.
Apparently states rights are more important then civil rights.
The problem is that allowing marriage is a poor proxy for the full range of civil rights that should be enjoyed by gays generally. Allowed the "right" to be married is sorta cold comfort when you can face housing discrimination for being gay in the majority of U.S. states, for example.
It's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve...
Country is going to hell. Ruled by a bunch of gosh damn pansies.
So then just for clarification, I assume you think Alabama's elective six year terms for their SSC judges is a bad thing, and that having the USSC justices being appointed for life by a sitting president is a good thing?
I wonder what Darwin would have thought about all of this.
Just wondering out loud........
LOL, Republicans don't understand the Constitution that they keep rubbing into everyone's face.
Since we used to enjoy none of those rights marriage is a solid step in the right direction. Once gay marriage is legal nationwide the advocacy groups will surely be turning their full attentions on employment and housing discrimination.
What employment discrimination? I don't know anything about the sex lives of any of my coworkers. I wouldn't know they're gay unless they went around talking about it, which is something you generally don't do at work.
Where are these offices where people talk about their sex lives? Be specific. I want addresses and phone numbers.
What employment discrimination? I don't know anything about the sex lives of any of my coworkers. I wouldn't know they're gay unless they went around talking about it, which is something you generally don't do at work.
Where are these offices where people talk about their sex lives? Be specific. I want addresses and phone numbers.
We don't talk around the water cooler. We actually do work around here. I only assume some of them are married because they have rings on their fingers, but even that could be misdirection. There's nothing stopping a single person or a gay person from wearing a ring.do you not have coworkers that chat about their spouses or kids at work? that's pretty normal water-cooler conversation kinda stuff.
We don't talk around the water cooler. We actually do work around here.
Yep. Professional engineers. The topic of who we sleep with on weekends never seems to come up.is it like a fully-staffed-by-autistics kinda office?
Being married and having kids are not reliable indicators of sexuality. Michelle Bachmann's husband is married, and he's the gayest man on the planet. Elton John and Little Richard were both married to women.purely through casual conversation, even sometimes work related (ie: "sorry, going to be in a little late tomorrow, have to drop my wife off at the airport"), I can tell you which of my coworkers are married and have kids.
Direct election of judges is one of the dumbest of dumb-fuck ideas.
It forces judges to take positions as well as campaign both things that weaken an institution that should be about interpreting the law.
In practical terms, all Unions should be treated equal.
However, any Judge that tells the Feds to piss off wins points with me. It's a state's rights thing, you wouldn't understand.
Yes, the Republican party has a lot of Neocons like Bush who are fully devout to a big and powerful federal government. They fit the bill as you describe. Libertarians however, 1: Support people having equal rights, 2: Want the States to have more authority.Conservative authoritarians only invoke states rights when they can't impose their brand of oppression at the national level. It's actually about limiting some people's rights rather than expanding them. It's the basis for 100 years of Jim Crow & ongoing suppression of Unions.
Exceptions are rare, like state level cannabis legalization. They're appalled at how a perfectly good lynching rope can be turned into macrame'.
Yes, the Republican party has a lot of Neocons like Bush who are fully devout to a big and powerful federal government. They fit the bill as you describe. Libertarians however, 1: Support people having equal rights, 2: Want the States to have more authority.
The idea of a state supreme court making waves is amusing.
Country is going to hell. Ruled by a bunch of gosh damn pansies.
Guns aren't involved in this discussion. They haven't read the rest.