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Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jun 26, 2015.

  1. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    I think you may have misread the opening sentence. My point was that some people are using her "sincerely held belief" as a defense for her actions of refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Old_Tony pointed out that she has stopped issuing them altogether. I wondered what is her defense for trampling on the rights of those opposite-sex couples to whom she has denied marriage licenses, so I facetiously asked if she has a sincerely held religious belief that opposite-sex couples should not be allowed to marry because homosexuality is a sin.
     
  2. Hokie_pokie

    Hokie_pokie Well-Known Member

    Yep, my bad.
     
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  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Armed Oath Keepers Militia Going To Kentucky To Defend Kim Davis

    Great, this is going to turn into another Bundy Ranch. I hope the US Marshals won't back down.
    Did Stewart Rhodes really graduate from Yale Law School?
    Didn't they teach him that interfering with US Marshals is a pretty serious crime?
    For all of his talk about the Constitution, does he even know the Bill of Rights from his cable bill?
     
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  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I was always told as a youngster that if you draw a live weapon on a cop, you were almost certain to get shot.

    We want our countree back.
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    This ought to be fun. Davis, backed by the Oath Keepers, refuses to issue a license to a gay couple. Gay couple comes back into the office, with either the National Guard if the Kentucky governor is so willing, or federal troops sent by Obama.
     
  6. Hokie_pokie

    Hokie_pokie Well-Known Member

    One day, my grandchildren are going to look at the photos of these events and shake their heads in disbelief, like my generation did with the photos of black students being harassed during school integration.

    It's the law of the land. Live and let live already, people.
     
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  7. Paynendearse

    Paynendearse Member

    Ask Ann Heche first. Or Lindsay Lohan.
     
  8. Paynendearse

    Paynendearse Member

    ho

    What business is it of us to tell someone who they can't marry - oh wait, never mind.
     
  9. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Well that settles it.
     
  10. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Ordinarily, I'd enjoy the irony of a group called the "oath keepers" rising to the defense of Kim Davis, but these are dangerous, well-armed people.
     
    Last edited: Sep 11, 2015
  11. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    One of the two worst lawyers I've dealt with regularly is a YLS grad. That this person has been practicing law for 30 years is mind blowing.

    The other, incidentally, went to a top 25 law school. I have no doubt the T25-er is smart; just gets really lost in their own thoughts and comes up with some irrational theories.
     
    Last edited: Sep 11, 2015
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    My firm annually considers no longer recruiting at Yale because "they don't end up practicing law."
     
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