Discussion: BREAKING: Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage Nationwide

Ann Coulter (without makeup) hears the news:

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First millions of Americans can keep their health coverage and now the government can’t decide who you love and marry. What in the h3ll is this world coming to?

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Heh… adding him now. Mea culpa.

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Celebration and happiness – but DON’T get complacent. If we want to hold onto these advances, the GOP can NOT get back into the White House.

That said… YEAH BABY!!! GO USA!!! :smiley:

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"LOVE CONQUERS HATE!"

Congrats LGBT Community from all people in the world who truly value equality and freedom!

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What a great week!

Hate banner coming down throughout the south…check!

Obamacare stays the law of the land…check!

Gay marriage is legal everywhere in the US…check!

gop/bags heads exploding…check!

We are going to need a bigger mop!

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Wow.

Now I can only hope that Justice Scalia does something illegal and ends up in a cell with a gay biker named “Tiny”.

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So much for the idea of Chief Just. Roberts wanting to protect his legacy.

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About F*cking time.

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Let’s all take a moment, in our glee, to stop and remember the unfortunate victims of this decision: all those homophobic cake bakers and pizza makers, all the talk radio hosts, everyone on Fox, most people over 80, pretty much every state-level elected Republican, pretty much every federal-level elected Republican, pretty much every elected Republican, the thousands and thousands of conservative preachers all over America and that one extremely bigoted Uncle you have.

Think of them, and then give them all a middle finger.

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MOre LEGIslaTING froM THE BEnch. AT leaST THE stATEs DOn’t HAVE to FOLLOw This ILLEGaL AssULT ON reaL MARRIAGE sINCE iT’s ILLEgaL. TIme TO REPEaL anD REPLACE SCOTUS!11!!!one!1!!!

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Reading parts of Scalia’s dissent on another site just now…its fucking hysterical.

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Lucky Bristol got pregnant before straight sex was outlawed.

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I’m thinking that since the decision didn’t hinge on his vote, he felt there was no need to further antagonize the right. But who knows?

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Scalia will soon demand that gay marriage be called SCOTUSlove.

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It’s too bad that’s really the last social issue to be decided this term. One more victory in the “Enlightened, Compassionate, Progressive Humans” side of the ledger might be enough to cause Mike Huckabee to jump off a bridge.

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More good news from the Washington Post last week:

Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducts the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll with Democrat Fred Yang, has identified a sudden and unexpected shift in ideology among registered voters; such views have traditionally been stable. In several polls over the past year, he has seen the proportion of registered voters identifying overall as conservative drop to 33 percent from 37 percent and the percentage identifying as liberal increase to 26 percent from 23 percent.

McInturff said the trend was first seen in surveys in 2014, and in 2015 the shift has been “detectable above a margin of error” on four straight surveys. Since 2010, the number of Democrats identifying as liberal has increased seven points and the number of Republicans identifying as conservatives has decreased six points.

It used to be assumed that “the public doesn’t like the word liberal,” said Frank Newport, who runs the Gallup surveys. “But that’s changing now. The public certainly finds it more acceptable, when we ask them to put a label on themselves, to use the word liberal than in the past

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-reclaim-the-liberal-label/2015/06/19/feeca592-168e-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html?hpid=z3

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About fucking time.

In 1973 I attended a “gay wedding” in NJ of a friend. We meet in Vietnam and became friends after he carried me more than 2 miles to an aide station, saving my life. At the time I worked for Kodak and used my employee discounts to get film and processing. I was looking at the pics after picking up and had noisy coworker look over my shoulder. He freaked out when he saw a pic of a banner stating “Congrats Bill and Tim”. I could not understand then and have never understood since. And that lack of understanding goes with family, one such my older brother who refused to attend my wedding years later if Bill along with Tim were invited. He missed a nice party. By the way I’m divorced while Bill and Tim are still together.

Congrats Bill and Tim about fucking time the rest of the nation recognized your union.

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I hope he remembers to bring the Astro-Glide.

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No kidding. The only thing preventing his name from joining that of the Dred Scott court is that he is on the losing side and equality moves forward. From his dissent:

“If you are among the many Americans–of whatever sexual orientation–who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not Celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.”

Ahhhh, no John.

I think the 14th Amendment and its guarantee of equal protection under the law has very much to do with striking-down same-gender marriage bans.

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