MARRIAGE EQUALITY NATIONWIDE

[Brian37]

Sorry kids, but the USA is well and truly fucked now.

NZ legalized same-sex marriage almost two years ago.  Since then, we've had plagues, famine, fires, wars and volcanoes belching Marmite.

Ireland passed this rubbish just around a month since, and the nuclear radiation is still ravaging the countryside.

In fact, all countries where men are allowed to marry men and women are allowed to marry women have suffered drastically - Finland, Norway, Sweden and all the rest.  Currency failures, women cohabitating with turtles, trees spontaneously melting into foul smelling puddles...Disaster after disaster...

Wait, what?  You say NONE of this has happened?  Countries with same-sex marriage, where they have the unmitigated gall to extend basic rights to gay people, have gone on pretty much as before, with the exception that the population is fractionally happier?  *sputter sputter fume fume*

What the hell is the world coming to???

Boru

[NB for the humour impaired:  The above is intended as sarcasm, albeit a little heavy handed.  I support gays rights, always have done, and I couldn't be happier about the court's decision]

Damn it, I really wanted that to be serious, have you no empathy for Mike Huckabee? Do you have any clue how this will emotionally ruin Pat Robertson? HAVE YOU NO DECENCY!<--------Sarcasm 2.0

[LastPoet]

Meanwhile in Wales, sheep keep being shagged?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Meanwhile in Wales, sheep keep being shagged?

Yes, but only non-perverted, God-fearing hetero sheep.

Boru

[abaris]

Meanwhile in Wales, sheep keep being shagged?

If it only was about sheep shaggers. The whole christian religion is built on their values.

[Minimalist]

Finally!  
Hopefully the next pres doesn't appoint anew justice that will undo it.

More reason to vote for whoever the dems put forward.

[pocaracas]

So... that's why I came back home to this news...

http://www.theonion.com/article/nations-...k-it-50766

Nation’s Homophobic Bigots Pack It In
‘Rules Are Rules,’ Say Those With Deeply Ingrained Prejudices

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, the nation’s homophobic bigots reportedly conceded today that “rules are rules” and announced that they were going to pack it in. “Well, this certainly went against my personal beliefs, but we must respect the Supreme Court’s ruling,” said Dale Howell of Avery, TX, who, like millions of his fellow intolerant Americans with an intense hatred of homosexuals, believes that he had the opportunity to make his voice heard and is now ready to accept the highest court in the land’s decision and move on.
“Obviously, I’m not going to like it. However, my hands are simply tied. The law is the law, and that’s really all there is to the situation.” Sources confirmed that the energy homophobes normally spent discriminating against gays will likely be reallocated to further holding down African Americans, Hispanics, women, and transgender individuals.

[Clueless Morgan]

HELL YEAH!!!! I'm so happy right now!!

[Secular Elf]

Finally!  
Hopefully the next pres doesn't appoint anew justice that will undo it.

That's not how the SCOTUS works.  Barring Constitutional amendment, gay marriage is the law of the land.  What will happen next will be a push for 'religious freedom' exceptions in administering marriage licenses to gay couples.  Specifically, religious wingnut public servants will put up a stink and decline to issue licenses, which will result in lawsuits that will slowly climb the ladder until they reach the SCOTUS.  

That's the next hurdle, and years away.  But, even if the SCOTUS deems that individual public servants can't be forced to issue such marriage licenses due to their religious convictions, gay marriage will still be legal.  Only a Constitutional amendment can undo that now.

I have a simple solution for public servants who refuse to issue gays marriage license for personal religious reasons (thus illegally discriminating against the applicant): replace them with someone who will.

[Esquilax]

I have a simple solution for public servants who refuse to issue gays marriage license for personal religious reasons (thus illegally discriminating against the applicant): replace them with someone who will.

Well yeah, or even just in the specific cases that it happens: religious bigots have this weird idea that "I personally refuse to provide you a marriage license on religious grounds," somehow translates to "well, I guess that means you're just not getting a marriage license," or "therefore, this entire organization is doing likewise," which just can't happen on things people have a right to.

If you don't want to violate your conscience in this issue, fine; my first suggestion is finding a job that won't hold that possibility, instead of expecting to be able to pick and choose your duties, but my second is that you keep in mind that you're not going to be preventing progress from happening entirely by kicking up a fuss.

[IanHulett]

I'm so happy! It means so much to me!