DOMA unconstitutional (5-4); Court punts on gay marriage (no standing)

I am learning a lot from you today, so I will also ask: Did the original document acknowledge that? I do not recall that being the case. I don't believe it made mention at all of race or gender.

 

States would have set the rules for their elections then. A given state could decide however to conduct its elections.

 

I've identified one moron thanks to this exchange.

 

World War G -- heterosexuality ends in 90 days unless Brad Pitt can save it:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d182501dfe/world-war-g

 

Scalia headlines anti-gay organization's conference.
































Paul Scalia, that is.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/07/03/scalia_s_son_headlines_anti_gay_ex_gay_conference.html

 

Not getting into the rulings or the younger Scalia necessarily here, but on another, now-locked, thread, I made mention of a certain insufferableness that tends to accompany those of a certain political orientation in a certain region of this fine nation. I see that insufferableness in this slate.com piece. Notice how the younger Scalia is quoted as saying ...

This, the author of the slate.com piece says, "is absolutely, completely, positively, indubitably wrong on the science." Continuing ...

Perhaps the slate.com studied non-sequiturs at the foot of a poster or two 'round these parts.

 

Tim Hardaway has flipped!

http://www.postonpolitics.com/2013/07/former-heat-hardaway-to-be-first-signer-of-same-sex-measure/

 

It sounds funny, but this is actually a very good example of how the debate has shifted and will shift. If people are going to change, you have to give them a chance to change, whether it's Hardaway or that college coach out west or even Rob Portman, who really never said anything hateful but hadn't been an ardent supporter and was catching all kinds of grief.

Hardaway has gone above and beyond to get to this point.

 

Turns out the anti-gay marriage advocates were right - the government is telling clergymen whom they can and can't marry!

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/indiana-law-makes-it-a-felony-for-same-sex-couples-to-apply-for-a-marriage-license/legislation/2013/07/08/70698

EDIT: Evidently this has been law in Indiana since 1997.