Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

I just did.

 

"I must admit that I have gone through those moments when I was greatly disappointed with the church and what it has done in this period of social change. We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution in America. At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. This is tragic. Nobody of honesty can overlook this. Now, I'm sure that if the church had taken a stronger stand all along, we wouldn't have many of the problems that we have. The first way that the church can repent, the first way that it can move out into the arena of social reform is to remove the yoke of segregation from its own body. Now, I'm not saying that society must sit down and wait on a spiritual and moribund church as we've so often seen. I think it should have started in the church, but since it didn't start in the church, our society needed to move on. The church, itself, will stand under the judgement of God. Now that the mistake of the past has been made, I think that the opportunity of the future is to really go out and to transform American society, and where else is there a better place than in the institution that should serve as the moral guardian of the community. The institution that should preach brotherhood and make it a reality within its own body." Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, at Western Michigan University, in response to a question from WMU President James Miller

http://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/MLK.pdf

 

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

 

In Kentucky, she could be sent to jail for six months for contempt of court.

Or maybe they could put put one person from Rowan County in jail every day for six months to spread it out.

 

Well, for one thing, the administration, just like any other one, is legally allowed to issue executive orders. The clerk is not legally allowed to refuse to marry people.

 

Dick,

Integration aside, the institution of slavery was supported on religious grounds. Slavery was in the bible, so therefore it's OK by God.

It was the crazy, liberal abolitionists who pushed back.

 

Are illegal immigrants coming to courthouses asking to be deported and being turned away?

 

That's not the same as saying that it is required by the Bible.

 

Does Jesus require his followers to be against gay marriage?

 

One is defying a law and the other is defying a law. No you didn't.

 

She's not exactly a victim here.

 

A police officer can elect not to pull someone over for going five miles over the speed limit. In that case, the State is choosing not to enforce its own law, and that's fine.

The same police officer, however, cannot elect to pull someone going five miles under the speed limit over ... just because. That would be defying the law, and that's not fine.