Supreme Court issues 5-4 ruling rejecting DOMA !!!

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Saturday, June 29, 2013 05:58
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BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:16 PM

Because the thousand-ish page plus often leather bound door-stopper is thick enough to be used as a deadly smiting weapon against heathens. In the old days a bible was more expensive than a blade, and a symbol of privilege and wealth. Bedazzle the Jesus with gaudy gold and precious stone bling. Sheep skin was often used instead of paper, making them even heavier.

Also the most common version that exists today is translated in an near impenetrable form of English and prose that dates back to Shakespeare's time.

It is, however, somewhat alarming that nonbelievers often know more about the religion than believers do.

KWICKO

Friday, June 28, 2013 3:36 AM

Conservatives apparently aren't going to take this lying down.

http://freakoutnation.com/2013/06/27/true-story-anti-gay-groups-new-ga
y-logo-on-your-knees-for-america/

This is an actual group headed by arch conservative Bryan Fischer, who admits to having "gay impulses".

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In one of the most unfortunate moves in American politics since Republicans kept referring to the Tea Party “teabagging,” the anti-gay Family Research Council, which has been officially designated a “hate group,” has come up with a rather odd campaign to fight the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down DOMA yesterday.

(Big hat tip to Chris Geidner who first tweeted the logo.)

FRC’s anti-gay campaign is titled “Call 2 Fall.” (Note the number “2″, done Internet-style – rather than being written out “two” – to attract the younguns.)

The anti-gay campaign’s slogan is “On our knees for America.”

And it’s accompanied by a logo that appears to be a man performing oral sex.

No sir, they are not going to take this lying down. They are going to suck it up and fall to their knees in anticipation of some kind of second coming, it seems.

If Jesus is coming, somebody better grab him a towel!

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, June 28, 2013 5:33 PM

Of course not, they'll just mainline another rewritten version of DOMA through again, and again, and again - keeping those they want pinned down on the back foot at all times with a barrage of legislation and forcing them to waste ridiculous amounts of time, effort and resources just to prevent being buried in it - and while everyone else was watching THAT, TexASS went and shit all over voting rights while no one was looking.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17231-he-can-marry-she-cant-vote
-another-day-in-deranged-america

Then again, I'd be a lot more interested and motivated to assist, were it not for the fact that by their own admission, the greater bulk of the factions on the back foot don't want equality so much as they want the whip of oppression in THEIR hand, directed at someone ELSE, which IMHO advances the human cause not one whit, because as long as you reduce Government to a weapon sitting in the middle of the table with factions fighting over who gets to point it at who, all you will ever get is a game of musical chairs, and progress be damned.

Better to ask the question - by what right, what authority, do you dictate my life, my actions to me... and if the answer is naught more than superior force, one might question then the wisdom of fueling that fire, hoping to someday use it against others in the same fashion - or engage in the cognitive contortions of the GOP who by way of knocking needful shackles off the Government now wind up hoisted on their own bitter pike.

But far, far more useful, is to condemn the notion of even WANTING to dictate the actions of others, to run their lives for them from behind threat of force and fear, to finally acknowledge that even the desire to do such is a form of mental illness, and to engage in it a sickness.

Alas, for THAT, one would have to give up the notion of MAKING other people do what THEY want, and I don't see that happening around here, sooo...

Hack the branches all you want, if you are helping water the root, it makes no bloody difference.

-Frem

SIGNYM

Friday, June 28, 2013 6:29 PM

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TexASS went and shit all over voting rights while no one was looking.

Liberals tend to be pretty short-sighted. I look at it as being caused by their desire not to have to deal with conflict. So horray for the ruling, but ...

It will all be undone when people are redistricted and gerrymandered and ID'd out of their right to vote, even more so than already. (Democrats won the majority of the popular vote for the House, but Republicans got the seats, thanks to effective gerrymandering on the part of state legislatures.)

If I'd had my 'druthers, I would simply have placed ALL of the USA under the Voting Rights Act and be done with it. Our voting system is a fustercluck, rigged to do exactly opposite of what it was created for. It's time everyone recognized that fact.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Friday, June 28, 2013 8:10 PM

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Test. Let's see if this link works.

EDIT- No it doesn't. Never mind.
If you're interested google " Bert & Ernie Newyorker"

NIKI2

Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:37 AM

Thank you, Rocket; I didn't know that. Makes it strange; do THEY not know that, or do they not care and are only concerned with the wording? Weird...

KWICKO

Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:58 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Thank you, Rocket; I didn't know that. Makes it strange; do THEY not know that, or do they not care and are only concerned with the wording? Weird...

Lots and lots of them are just plain idiots.

Here's one example:

He wants to live his life by Leviticus, but seems to have conveniently forgotten what Leviticus 19:28 has to say:

"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD."

Texas is a bit overrun by morons and dolts like this. They'll tell you on the one hand that their holy babble holds that homosexuality is "an abomination", and then tell you that the Old Testament bans on wearing clothes of different fibers, or eating shellfish, or touching the skin of a pig (football, anyone?), or shaving or cutting your hair, or having piercings or tattoos, are all "abominations" that put one on the exact same level of doomed as homosexuality.

Heck, if you're a baptist, you can't dance or you might as well be gay. In fact, baptists don't even fuck standing up, for fear someone will see them and think they're dancing!

Jews don't recognize Jesus as the son of god.
Muslims don't recognize Jews as equals.
Protestants don't recognize the pope as the head of the church.
And baptists don't recognize each other at Hooters.

Those are the four great religious truths.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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