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I don’t even know where to start…
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So are the GOP’s restrictive abortion bills…
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The crazy never ends. Dred Scott denied rights enshrined under the Constitution, these pro marriage equality decisions ensure rights enshrined under the Constitution. The likelihood that gay marriage rights can be rolled back is about as likely as overturning the 13th Amendment. It ain’t gonna happen.
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Yes, preventing Evangelical Christianists from being able to impose their views on the rest of the country is exactly like slavery.
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You know how you ‘win’. Just proclaim that you will never take part in a gay marriage…and walk away. I guarantee you that no one will ever impose it on you. Then everyone can go on to live the life they choose. A win - win for everyone. You and your ilk continue to complicate it with your hatred…its just SO simple. The whole issue has ZERO affect on your life.
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The funniest thing is that in reality, both Dred Scott and gay marriage are imposed by the Constitution. Taney’s opinion, although ghastly in today’s view of slavery, was fully consistent with the legal status of slaves under to the original constitution. That is why Lincoln was adamant about the passage of the 13th amendment.
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The hell you say. As soon as gay marriage was declared legal, my entire family was captured by slave traders, shipped to Africa, and is now working in diamond mines in South Africa.
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OK. You’re hereby sentenced to be a sex slave for a gay married couple, Ralph.
There. Now it’s JUST LIKE DRED SCOTT.
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That’s why it’s the perfect issue for Reed and his fellow GOP homophobes—they can never win, which means they can use it to whip up their base into fits of apoplectic victimhood every two years for fundraising without ever having to worry about it actually being overturned.
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Give it up, Ralphie…nobody is forcing you to get gay married. It’s an expansion of rights to ALL our citizens. Although you and Tom Delay would make a nice couple.
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Seriously though, living here in Iowa, if you didn’t know that gay marriage was legal, you wouldn’t even know that gay marriage was legal, unless you had been to a same sex wedding or had family or friends in that category.
The impact has been that negligible. There has been literally zero impact on my life, except for the schadenfreude of watching the hate brigade here flounder around like beached fish.
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If it’s Iowa, I’d say the more accurate marine creature to reference is a whale.
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Well, we know that Ralph Reed favors torture now that he has used it on this perfect example of self-serving logic.
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My head hurts.
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Just when will that piece of crap be sent to prison for stealing mega dollars from native Americans? Christian my ass friend.
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I wonder who Reed’s ass friend is.
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Isn’t there a slavery version of Godwin’s Law somewhere?
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I was once trapped in an elevator in the Eiffel Tower with Ralph Reed. Now THAT was like Dred Scott. Except that we were together and unequal.
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Ralphie, Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist had a long-standing 3-way from back in '83 when they took over the College Republican National Committee until Abramoff was indicted in '05.
Reed is one of the sleaziest players on the right, a real sociopath and a deeply closeted (in his own imagination) gay man. The Santorum is thick on this one.
LD
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