Smiles
June 27th, 2015, 01:42
The United States Supreme Court (i.e. the Last Spike, the court-of-courts ... no appeals coming from this puppy) just the other day gave a 6-3 nod in the affirmative regarding a very important and basic part of the Affordable Care Act (AKA 'Obamacare') which had been taken to the court by a significant number of states who were of course gleefully ready and waiting to gut the Act.
And today, just an hour ago, standing in line at my bank, I looked up idly at the TV hanging on the back wall (always tuned to the news channel) and heard that same court had just ruled that full and equal gay marriage ~ throughout the country, not just individual states ~ is now fully protected by the US Constitution. Now the law of the land.
Needless to say, a very bad day for the Limbaughs, the Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Fox News', the right wing Talk Radios, the Republican Party (for the most part), the fundamentalists, assorted dinosaurs and no-nothingists etc etc etc.
Some interesting links and a pithy quote:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015 ... ll-50.html (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/06/26/same-sex-marriage-now-legal-for-gay-military-couples-in-all-50.html)
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertain ... B720150626 (http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCAKBN0P62B720150626)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... tml#page=1 (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-supreme-court-gay-marriage-scalia-roberts-kennedy-20150626-story.html#page=1)
And from the great State of Alabama: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/0 ... _2015.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/us_supreme_court_rulings_2015.html)
To be expected:
(Today) 1:37 p.m. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says it is "profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage."
And evangelical leaders who are part of the Southern Baptist Convention, along with other churches and Christian groups, say there can be no capitulation in defending traditional marriage because "biblical authority" requires the struggle against same-sex marriage to continue.
And today, just an hour ago, standing in line at my bank, I looked up idly at the TV hanging on the back wall (always tuned to the news channel) and heard that same court had just ruled that full and equal gay marriage ~ throughout the country, not just individual states ~ is now fully protected by the US Constitution. Now the law of the land.
Needless to say, a very bad day for the Limbaughs, the Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Fox News', the right wing Talk Radios, the Republican Party (for the most part), the fundamentalists, assorted dinosaurs and no-nothingists etc etc etc.
Some interesting links and a pithy quote:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015 ... ll-50.html (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/06/26/same-sex-marriage-now-legal-for-gay-military-couples-in-all-50.html)
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertain ... B720150626 (http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCAKBN0P62B720150626)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... tml#page=1 (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-supreme-court-gay-marriage-scalia-roberts-kennedy-20150626-story.html#page=1)
And from the great State of Alabama: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/0 ... _2015.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/us_supreme_court_rulings_2015.html)
To be expected:
(Today) 1:37 p.m. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says it is "profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage."
And evangelical leaders who are part of the Southern Baptist Convention, along with other churches and Christian groups, say there can be no capitulation in defending traditional marriage because "biblical authority" requires the struggle against same-sex marriage to continue.