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I’ll have my Schadenfreude on the rocks tonight, thank you.
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Teabagger Reaction:
More at 11.
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It’s over, bigots. Look at the demographics. The only age groups opposing marriage equality are what can kindly be referred to as “Waiting for God.”
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It’s amazing how quickly people grew up.
I blame Queer Eye and Ellen.
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What do Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and Indiana have in common?
These were all states won by George W. Bush in 2004 – the same election in which gay marriage bans were placed on the ballot in 11 states, thanks to Karl Rove’s wedge politics. The GOP deliberately chose to demonize gay people in order to maximize the hate vote, and it worked. All 11 bans passed, and hate-voter turnout was sufficient to deliver Ohio to GWB (with a little help from Ken Blackwell diluting the African American vote).
I don’t even like weddings that much, but to see these perfectly innocent, normal people, whose only crime was loving someone the right wing disapproved of, rising up after having been punching bags for the GOP and earning the right to finally marry and have their marriages recognized by the state, it brings tears to the eyes. And to think that it is happening in two of the most conservative (i.e., hate-filled) states in the nation…
Schadenfreude doesn’t begin to describe it.
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Mazel Tov to all the newlyweds out there. It feels good to see people truly happy for a change in the news…
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A small part of me fears an attempted conservative justice set up -
- could see Scalia - in his twisted malicious sadistic way - wanting the total number of Gay marriages to actually be very large - so he can put on theatrics, make searing judgmental & cruel remarks - and then cackle with sinister glee as he authors a ruling to retroactively make the gay marriages of massive number of people to be ruled invalid - Scalia really is an evil bastard who takes delight in the suffering of others - and will craft ways in which to maximize the number of individuals he can cause to suffer… all totally self justified via some deeply twisted craving to be the moral policeman - enforcing his personal rigid moral views on all others.
Such happy expressions of a love so profound it held the hate of society at bay - in some cases for many years. Thank you for the photos.
Smiling ear-to-ear thru my tears…
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Me too. The third picture of the two older gentlemen with ponytails, one walking with a cane and the other holding up a bouquet of flowers, is what did it for me. Almost all the photos look like the couple just left work and went straight to the courthouse. I can’t help but juxtapose those images next to those of so many straight folks who plan these extravagant weddings for two years, waste 10s of thousands, and then get divorced a year later. It’s a damn shame what so many of us take for granted.
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Another win, hidden in the press coverage
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) - Missouri will not appeal a state court judge’s ruling requiring the state to recognize legal same-sex marriages performed in other places, Attorney General Chris Koster said on Monday.
The decision not to appeal the ruling came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, allowing same-sex couples to marry in five additional states immediately.
Good to see that the Missouri AG understands the Constitutional requirement of Full Faith and Credit
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Mass weddings were held in OKC and Tulsa. People dropped everything and lined up for licenses as soon as the news hit. One pair married in the parking lot during a party being held by the OK Cimarron Alliance, an LGBT group, which was celebrating at the time. The first couple married was the lesbian pair who brought the lawsuit in OK. They married on the courthouse steps this afternoon. It’s a happy day here for once!
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