SCOTUS rules: gay marriage approved

[Bowfinger]

Most mainline repubs were happy about yesterday's SCOTUS decision.

Maybe, but if so their presidential contenders are completely out of sync with mainline repubs. I expect they will be similarly railing against this ruling.

 

[MrPickins]

This fucking awesome!!
There's gonna be some heads 'splodin around here and on fox.

I heard Ann Coulter on the radio describing chicken little scenarios that somehow ended with people who are anti-gay being denied student loans.

 

[fskimospy]

Not only have the decisions this week made me happy from a policy perspective, but I feel like Scalia must be losing his mind. That makes me really happy too.

 

[zinfamous]

LOL. and poor texashiker out tugging away, blissfully unaware that teh gays can now haz marriage.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry, it's been a shit week/month for news, we, as a nation deserve some good news. Fuck yea!

out on the river with his seamen tugging away while this historic announcement is made?

You can bet they will be celebrating all week.

 

[zinfamous]

For the week of 6-21 - 6-27:

Constitution - 2
Right Wing Ideology - 0
The Nation - Priceless

what did I miss earlier this week?

 

[Londo_Jowo]

I've always have felt this was going to be the final outcome. There's a few members of the forum that this decision will chap their ass and they will still post their displeasure however, they will have to deal with it as it's now "The Law of Land!!".

 

[soulcougher73]

This and ACA in the same week. Are Repbus still breathing?

 

[cabri]

kennedy sided w/the 4 liberals on the court.

hm.. the 3 ladies. who's the 4th liberal?

ROBERTS, ALITO, SCALIA and THOMAS opposed

 

[CitizenKain]

what did I miss earlier this week?

Obamacare will continue to exist.

Also the Supreme Court upheld Fair Housing and removed some components of mandatory sentencing.

 

[Brainonska511]

ROBERTS, ALITO, SCALIA and THOMAS opposed

Yep. It was interesting seeing this at the bottom:

ROBERTS, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA and THOMAS, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS, J., joined. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, J., joined. ALITO, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA and THOMAS, JJ., joined.

4 dissenting opinions...

 

[brycejones]

out on the river with his seamen tugging away while this historic announcement is made?

You can bet they will be celebrating all week.

Can he see through the salty spray?

 

[CitizenKain]

Yep. It was interesting seeing this at the bottom:


4 dissenting opinions...

Scalia's is just 6 pages of writing Fuck You

 

[Ns1]

The tears of the bigots are so delicious.

This

 

[LightPattern]

Not only have the decisions this week made me happy from a policy perspective, but I feel like Scalia must be losing his mind. That makes me really happy too.

So far I've observed his mind working just fine, but increasing anger about the direction of the court. He could resign in protest, if he really thinks the court is broken. Would be a lot of happy liberals if he did.
I doubt we'll be seeing a gesture of that magnitude from this court. Wouldn't surprise me to see lower judges calling it quits though.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Queue all the conservatives saying that our country is doomed and going to hell. They going to spend the next few election cycles making baseless promises to their rabid base about somehow rolling this decision back? I wouldn't be surprised

 

[zinfamous]

Obamacare will continue to exist.

Also the Supreme Court upheld Fair Housing and removed some components of mandatory sentencing.

wow, what a week.

 

[fskimospy]

Oh my god the rage in Scalia's dissent is so sweet. He's furiously flailing, calling the ruling a threat to democracy, a 'judicial Putsch', and things like that. He's also claiming that California doesn't count as part of the western US, and things like that.

He has totally lost his mind and I'm loving it. Fuck that guy.

 

[Brainonska511]

http://www.theonion.com/article/nations-homophobic-bigots-pack-it-50766

WASHINGTON—Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, the nation’s homophobic bigots reportedly conceded today that “rules are rules” and announced that they were going to pack it in. “Well, this certainly went against my personal beliefs, but we must respect the Supreme Court’s ruling,” said Dale Howell of Avery, TX, who, like millions of his fellow intolerant Americans with an intense hatred of homosexuals, believes that he had the opportunity to make his voice heard and is now ready to accept the highest court in the land’s decision and move on. “Obviously, I’m not going to like it. However, my hands are simply tied. The law is the law, and that’s really all there is to the situation.” Sources confirmed that the energy homophobes normally spent discriminating against gays will likely be reallocated to further holding down African Americans, Hispanics, women, and transgender individuals.

 

[cliftonite]

This is what Kennedy wrote, I agree 100%

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people be come something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,"

 

[Newell Steamer]

Gay-ghazi?

Same Sex Panels??

 

[brycejones]

Yep. It was interesting seeing this at the bottom:


4 dissenting opinions...

There must be much butthurt to express. Especially if Thomas wrote one, that would require him to do some work beyond just voting no.

 

[xBiffx]

Let me know when a homosexual couple gets to walk into a church and force it to marry them. Until then, this ruling and fiasco is about government bennies, nothing more. Glad to see its over with though. Congrats to the "winners."

 

[hal2kilo]

This and ACA in the same week. Are Repbus still breathing?

Unfortunately yes, and instead of accepting reality, and this just amazes me, they are going to do a re-run of the 2012 campaign.

REPEAL AND REPLACE!!!!!!!!!!

with who knows what

I'm sure it will be a successful campaign strategy the second time around.

 

[fskimospy]

So far I've observed his mind working just fine, but increasing anger about the direction of the court. He could resign in protest, if he really thinks the court is broken. Would be a lot of happy liberals if he did.
I doubt we'll be seeing a gesture of that magnitude from this court. Wouldn't surprise me to see lower judges calling it quits though.

His mind seems to be working just fine, it's just that he's been exposed repeatedly as a hypocritical hack. It's ironic how his current ACA dissent is arguing against his previous ACA dissent, and this gay marriage dissent is arguing against his previous gay rights dissent.

He's a culture warrior that cares about advancing right wing causes, he's not acting as a judge. I wish he would resign, as he's a disgrace to the institution. I'm quite certain he won't though as again, the agenda is the important thing to him.

 

[nageov3t]

Thomas' dissent is fucking scary.

“The corollary of that principle is that human dignity cannot be taken away by the government,” Thomas wrote in his dissent. “Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.”

I generally like GHWB and think he did a great job as President, but the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court is a stain on the country. I actively look forward to the day that he retires or passes away peacefully in bed.