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Well, Governor Butch, make sure you throw a big, long pissy fit. Get in front of the cameras every day and night and leave no invective unvected in your crusade to deny American citizens their basic human rights. Be proud and speak your hate out loud for all to admire and see.
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Which will be the 50th state? My gut tells me Mississippi. It took Mississippi 158 years to ratify the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.
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Idaho is in the 9th Circuit. Figure the odds of your “success” Butch. Waste of toner even to print the paperwork.
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Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said he would consult with the governor on the state’s appeal.
You should call Kentucky for advice. They’re marketing a new post-hoc pro-procreation strategy to run by the appeals court: Project SOS-BR*.
Word on the circuit is it’s a winner.
(*Save Our Species and Breed like Rabbits)
““In 2006, the people of Idaho exercised their fundamental right, reaffirming that marriage is the union of a man and a woman,””
something about civil rights not being decided by the majority
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The governor’s name is Butch Otter, seriously?
Talk about burying the lede.
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Yeah, unless I’m misremembering, there’s no “fundamental right” to discriminate. Not even if someone pretends that their god demands it.
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“…The court’s ruling is a victory … for everyone who cares about freedom and fairness…”
Which conservatives do not.
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Come on! Some stuff is just TOO easy!
It’s nice to see the coffin slowly nailed shut on one of the culture warriors’ biggest issues.
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“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
– West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1941)
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And . . . cue the wingnut qvetching:
“We’re entitled to stick our noses into other couples’ sex lives! Because we voted on it!”
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We should again thank Justice Scalia for his ranting dissent in the Lawrence v. Texas decision, when he opined that support for ‘traditional’ marriage was a ruse to have the right to discriminate against a group of people determined by others to be icky.
This is going to be the general trend for the foreseeable future.
Right Win Bigots will enact laws designed to make the LGBT community into second-class citizens, and judges will find these repulsive laws unconstitutional, and those same Bigots will kvetch about “the will of the people” being undermined by “unelected judges.”
Within the next two years—or less—this issue will once again end up on the Supreme Court docket, and marriage equality will become the law of the land, leaving the right-wing Bigots curled in the fetal position sucking their thumbs.
Then, they’ll start looking for another group against whom they can randomly discriminate.
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These overturnings are starting to sound like a GEICO commercial:
First speaker: Hmm, same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional.
Second speaker: Everyone knows that.
First speaker: Well, did you know that some governors and attorneys general don’t believe it?
Fade to scene of Butch Otter and his attorney general repeatedly hitting each other on the head with sledge hammers.
Voiceover: Same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional. Believe it!
Fade to smiling visage of Justice Antonin “Big Tony” Scalia with voiceover “I told you so.”
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The Republican Con and Rightie homophobes are accelerating the legalization of gay marriage by passing those bigoted, homophobic and hate-filled laws: Insist that there be a law against gay marriage in the Bagger State, the law is found to be unconstitutional (surprise to no one), and voila gay marriage is legal. (And a lil’ troll dig to Pope Scalia is just icing on the gay marriage wedding cake!)
I LOVE IT!!! Those dumba** Rightie Wingnut Baggers might have noticed that pattern by now. I’m not complaining, an acceleration of equal rights is super, super fine with me. I just find it sort of amusing that they’re bringing about the exact opposite of their original intent.
My shadenfreude cup runneth over! Is that so wrong? LMAO
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Idaho and Arkansas! Alas and alack…try as they may …
They could not pray the gays away.
lmao
Perhaps they meant “prey”; spelling was never the Baggers’ strong suit.
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And still, the GOP establishment South continues it’s tradition of standing up to a government that mandates that they act like human beings and not a bunch of rabid Rightie ferrets and worms.
BTW: Avoid “Old Confederacy” references…It’s still there and firmly embedded in the vacuous souls of the GOP cult followers; “Confederacy” is still applicable.
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I think one of the most perceptive observations ever came from MLK: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
Bigotry is a long, slow battle against enlightenment. It never wins.