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PoliGAF 2015 |OT| Keep Calm and Diablos On
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benjipwns
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No: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-7120_p86b.pdf
This was the case where they told them to come back for a second round of oral arguments because the first one was so worthless.
Scalia said:
This was the case where they told them to come back for a second round of oral arguments because the first one was so worthless.
Black Mamba
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Kennedys Opinion is so eloquent throughout. None more so than the end. I don't know if anyone could have written a better Decision on same sex marriage than he.
Contrast that to the petulant child that is scalia. The dissent feels like something you'd read on a Facebook comment. He comes off as a boorish idiot. I knew there would be salt but wow.
Another embarrassment we can put behind us, America.
Same sex couples were always equal to others in my eyes and now the same will be true in the eyes of the law. Awesome.
Contrast that to the petulant child that is scalia. The dissent feels like something you'd read on a Facebook comment. He comes off as a boorish idiot. I knew there would be salt but wow.
Another embarrassment we can put behind us, America.
Same sex couples were always equal to others in my eyes and now the same will be true in the eyes of the law. Awesome.
Black Mamba
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eBay Huckster
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Okay, so all of the GOP candidates have weighed-in with reactions.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kyleblaine/...he-same-sex-mar?utm_term=.ulDyWqQv#.vv4DGLjYY
Jeb and Rubio have set themselves apart by not calling for (the fantasy of) a constitutional amendment. Walker has called for one, so I'm wondering if we'll see some voters move in his direction.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kyleblaine/...he-same-sex-mar?utm_term=.ulDyWqQv#.vv4DGLjYY
Jeb and Rubio have set themselves apart by not calling for (the fantasy of) a constitutional amendment. Walker has called for one, so I'm wondering if we'll see some voters move in his direction.
NYCmetsfan
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I now live in the camps for straights in our genderless dystopia it was baned
Yeah, but the TPP passed.
ErasureAcer
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I don't think Obama should get that much credit for gay marriage, if anything, diamond Joe should, but it's pretty funny.
How bout all the glbt activist organizations across the country and their long-time supporters throughout the decades get the vast majority of the credit...that'd be good. Obama and Biden are footnotes in the story of marriage equality with their legacy being their administration appointing 2 of the justices to vote for it. Quite frankly, they don't get much credit beyond that in my book. They initially didn't run on(2008) equal rights for GLBT people and those that support them. In my history book that fact will not be omitted. Cowardly. I will give Obama props for coming out in support of gay marriage before his reelection but given the history of the fight for gay rights...Obama is merely a footnote when there are plenty of other people who did a hell of a lot more.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Were they ever really in the first place?
HylianTom said:
So, he'll be following the classic "Say something that gets me through the primaries and absolutely destroys me in the general election" campaign move the GOP has done recently.
Roland_Gunner
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TBF, Roberts' dissent basically said that this was an issue for legislators and not courts. I still think that's garbage since he was willing to eviscerate the voting rights act after it had been past by Congress but its not like he agreed with Scalia.
benjipwns
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Paul and Cruz are still polling well above Perry, Fiorina, Santorum, Jindal and Graham. Especially Paul.
ErasureAcer
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Do these idiots not understand that gay people have faith as well? They talk about freedom of religion but they only mean their religion(in a broad sense) and furthermore as to they themselves interpret it.
Why the fuck am I on such a stupid planet? God fucking hell.
SomewhatGroovy
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I see nothing wrong with this image. As long as it's consensual, who are others to judge my cat and I?
Butts-a-plenty
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CrimzonSamurai
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My facebook feed is somewhat disappointingly homogenous.
I really shouldn't have been such an effective debater against idiotic positions that all my idiotic former facebook friends unfriended me.
I think 63% and climbing was a fine jumping off point. Thanks, though, JR.
I really shouldn't have been such an effective debater against idiotic positions that all my idiotic former facebook friends unfriended me.
I think 63% and climbing was a fine jumping off point. Thanks, though, JR.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I mean, weren't they already doing this? Look at public opinion polling.
Fenderputty
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Seriously. What a weird way to frame that.
You're of course right, and while we're at it, let's remember Ninia Baehr and Genora Dancel.
But let's not downplay what Diamond Joe Biden did here, it was not some sort of political calculus, he was asked a question on meet the press, and uncle Joe pretty much decided it was time to get fucking real.
We would've got here anyway, but he pushed the schedule on the Obama white house, more than his operatives were comfortable in doing, and he deserves a credit for that.
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thepotatoman
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Fight to include LGBT in the list of protected classes that can't be discriminated against in employment decisions?
Ignatz Mouse
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Speaking of Joe, has this been posted?
Jill Biden said:
This is the most Joe Biden thing I have ever heard. Yes it is parody, but you could totally see him doing it. I'm gonna miss him when he's gone.
hydragonwarrior
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I want Walker to say something completely stupid during these primaries - he's flying under the radar too much and that worries me. He reminds me of Harper in Canada
CrimzonSamurai
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No, silly, we Nazi-salute dear leader Obama and begin instituting his President-For-Life regime of Islamic Communism.
Roland_Gunner
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Well he did compare teacher's unions to ISIS...
Putin is a master troll. But his answers are insightful. They reveal the motivation behind Russia's actions. Putin mentions the eastern expansion of NATO and Bush's withdrawal from the ABM Treaty as provocations, and he's not wrong. Both policies signaled a dramatic shift in American post-Cold War strategy that encroached on Russia's interests. These objections were raised when Clinton first proposed the expansion of NATO. Gaddis encapsulates the faults of expansion, and the predictions of those opposed to a shift in policy proved prescient. Bush's decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty and install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe only accelerated the burgeoning tension between the U.S. and Russia. And when it became clear in 2008 at the Bucharest summit that the U.S. was going to eventually bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, Russia decided to assert its interests aggressively. The inattention to great power politics since the Clinton Administration has been detrimental to our interests. Obama has performed better than his predecessors on this point, but it's going to take consistency to remedy the damage.
We're a species of upstart apes. What do you expect?
CrimzonSamurai
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Exactly. He's flying under the radar because as soon as the spotlight does hit it's going to set him ablaze.
Might as well let him keep going to the general, all that baggage comes rushing out at once... mmmhmmm!
PhoenixDark
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Teacher unions have probably done more harm to the US than ISIS. Same applies to police unions. Fuck them both.
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thepotatoman
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I sure am happy that we don't have to look at this gay marriage decision like it was a trade for the Obamacare ruling. No having to say "but King v Burwell" when talking about this decision. Just pure celebration.
PhoenixDark
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Obama doesn't give a fuck haha. I love it.
NYCmetsfan
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So should blacks have waited for whites to accept interracial marriage? Didn't that only go above water in the 90s?
Coriolanus
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According to Roberts, yes.
No fucks Obama is best Obama.
Operation Slippery Slope is a go.
#LetsPutTheHusbandInAnimalHusbandry
This strangely like welfare trolling. Enjoy your pittance, but remember you didn't earn it by the sweat of your brow!
Retromelon
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He might draw a distinction because it was traditional marriage and not the redefinition we are looking at today.
CrimzonSamurai
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Question from the SSM ruling thread in OT Main:
The ruling doesn't establish marriage - alone - as a fundamental right, correct? Simply that if state-sanctioned civil marriage is going to exist it can't be discriminatory.
I know some red states were planning on dropping civil marriage altogether, or at least talking about it, if the ruling went the way they didn't want. The ruling doesn't prohibit that, does it?
The ruling doesn't establish marriage - alone - as a fundamental right, correct? Simply that if state-sanctioned civil marriage is going to exist it can't be discriminatory.
I know some red states were planning on dropping civil marriage altogether, or at least talking about it, if the ruling went the way they didn't want. The ruling doesn't prohibit that, does it?
Coriolanus
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"How can it be traditional marriage if we're allowing people to marry animals?"
Just a matter of how deep down the rabbit hole you wanna go, tbqh.
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