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Finally, Friends of Dorothy can get married in Kansas.
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Exxxxcccccelent.
(Rubs hands together)
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…I’m not a friend of Dorothy…
And honestly, I’d rather not get married in Kansas.
At same-sex marriage is legal here in Vermont!
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I live in Kansas and I’ll never marry here or anywhere else. But if others want to take that jump, I say god help them, because most of them will need it.
If marriage makes them happy, then good.
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To be honest, I haven’t even dated. I get a lot of flack for that, though, since I am lesbian and there are some idiots out there who think that you can’t be a lesbian unless you’ve dated someone already. I would just haven’t found the right person yet plus dealing with severe personal issues…
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I’m not a big fan of dating myself (I hate it), so I understand your concerns. Best of luck to you!
So if I’m reading this and other vacated stays stories correctly, only Scalia and Thomas are NO votes if the issue comes before the court. All the other justices are fine letting this go (if there were 4 votes against it, it would be on the docket by now). 4th circuit be-damned, it’s full steam ahead.
but how do you feel about dating other people?
/groucho
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Sounds logical, I hope the issues are solved but for fun, even dates don’t have an easy time of it mating, or being with a partner (link is for humor’s sake) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAXB6u1enYM
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Will same sex marriage make Kansas residents who vote republican poorer?
Poorer in spirit, I hope. However, Brownback is making them poorer financially.
Naive doesn’t begin to describe them.
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Hey you haters in Kansas! If you oppose gay marriage, don’t have one!
Dorothy is coming home Kansas. Get used to it!
Congrats LGBT community!
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Kansas is really going straight to hell now. Not to mention that their entire economy if totally fucked for the next 4 years.
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Kansas / Hell ________ Potato / Potahhto’
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Auntie Em:
Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog.
/s/ Dorothy
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Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
At least we know the vote if and when the 6th Circuit case reaches the Supremes. 7-2 for marriage equality. (Knew we had Kennedy and Roberts. Didn’t know, until now, that we had Alito).
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FUCK Scalia and Thomas, two douchebags that American can’t wait until they’re no longer on the bench!
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I knew we had Kennedy for sure as he has been out in front of LGBT issues since at least Romer (1996).
Roberts is a bit more of a wild card: I think if he “knows” for certain that there are the 5 votes to overturn state-level marriage discrimination laws, he will probably side with the majority just to make sure that the opinion is founded on the narrowest possible grounds (i.e. written by himself) so as to limit the opinion’s precedential value in expanding protections for LGBT individuals.
On Alito, I seriously doubt that he would side with the majority (4 liberals and Kennedy) on this issue. My guess is that he doesn’t care anymore. He knows there are five votes to make marriage equality the law of the land already on the Court whether he agrees with the decision or not. Therefore he may have just decided to get out of the way.
Scalia is a loudmouth that must be going apoplectic when he sees that the very words in his Windsor dissent about substituting the words “DOMA” with “this state’s law” have come to pass in full Technicolor and at break-neck speed: in the 16 months since Windsor, the number of states with marriage equality has gone from about 13 to nearly 35. Court challenges to all remaining marriage restrictions are underway in all remaining states.
And Thomas just says what Scalia tells him to say.
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I don’t hate Kansas; I’ve been treated well by friendly people whenever I’ve passed through there. I don’t understand why Kansans look at the ballot on election day and think, “Hmm. This guy’s going to pass legislation that will hurt me. I’ll vote for him”, but I’m sure there’s a reason why hundreds of thousands of people did that last week.
I am allergic to wheat and indifferent about sunflowers. That’s a huge negative for me re: Kansas.
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And remember with low taxes Kansas is experiencing an economic boom just as predicted by Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Arthur Laffer.
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