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There’s also another law to be addressed. Apparently, our state has a law that says clerks can’t issue licenses. The plaintiffs intend to go back to court tomorrow to address this.
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Don’t you know what’s going to happen now with this? It means brothers are going to be marrying sisters. Oh wait, this is the South we’re talking about…ok, never mind.
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Can someone please explain to me how such a large percentage of the country can go from one belief system (gay marriage is horrible and evil and wrong, so wrong that we should outlaw it!) to an entirely different belief system (gay marriage is beautiful and should be legal and celebrated!).
I’m, of course, happy about the shift. I just don’t understand it. How does someone’s brain work when their belief system is so malleable?
Looks like the Huckster has more judges to impeach…
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Bill Clinton should immediately give a speech or do a fundraiser in Little Rock to celebrate and reaffirm victory for equality in Arkansas.
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It has nothing to do with they changed their minds. Judges read law, they see the precedents. All this was predictable after the Supreme Court decision on DOMA.
As someone who was there at the time, people did not change their minds after Loving v Virginia - the Supreme Court decision that made bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional. Time changed that as the old people died off. And as “accepted” as interracial marriage is nowadays, there is certainly still a fairly significant chunk of the population who have “problems” with it, 52 years later.
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This is big: The Supreme Court of a southern state is saying that the people opposing same-sex marriage do not have a substantial chance of prevailing.
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Probably most people in every time and place are actually indifferent to what doesn’t perceptibly affect them personally. It’s not that their belief system is malleable so much as it is unformed.
“They talk the talk.” If you stick a microphone in their faces or call them for a poll, they may opine; and if they are already present to vote on different matters, it doesn’t take much more effort to vote on state marriage amendment. Some may even vent in cyberspace about gay marriage among a number of other resentments.
“But they don’t walk the walk.” If the laws are one way or the other on this or other unrelatable issue, “What can you do? You can’t fight city hall.” It may not be flattering, but inertia is as strong a spiritual force as it is physical to the perceptibly uninvolved. Another poster on another day in another thread alluded to “utilitarian principles” to explain such a phenomenon.
And PO many Arkansas voters by doing so!
Better Bill Clinton should go to Arkansas and remind voters how they are tangibly better off since the state expanded medicaid eligibility for subsidized health insurance premiums. Now that’s change many of them can believe in, and Senator Pryor can harness!
If you read Kennedy’s opinion in Windsor it’s pretty clear that the opponents of gay marriage are toast when this reaches the Supreme Court. Kennedy couched his opinion in Equal Protection language. The Arkansas Supreme Court is correct in its prediction.
“McDaniel said a stay was necessary because clerks did not know whether they were obligated to issue licenses.”
Isn’t that their job?
God loves everyone , people don’t .
This is such a thoughtful and smart response. Thank you. It makes a lot of sense that people say that they have an opinion on something before they’ve really done the work to form that opinion. I feel a long facebook post coming on…