I get that it is standard and pretty much required the way it is set up now. I would prefer no govt involvement in marriage and no corresponding constraints on any legal issues pertaining to the rest. Things are overly complicated when govt is involved.
Right?! The Catholic church was the first wholly corrupt governing body before state merit-based governments began gaining favor. There's a reason most of Europe started abandoning the rule of the Pope and Rome in the 1500s for alternative Christian religions like Lutherinism, COE, etc.
Yep. In their eyes, freedom means doing exactly as they tell you, and in accordance with their interpretation of the Bible. There’s no room for individualism in the GOPvangelical world.
I'm pretty sure it's the (purposeful) indoctrination of young minds that got us into this mess.
One of my earliest memories is when the Bible teacher told my mom that I was a bad kid because I kept asking questions during class. I guess they didn't want me enlightening the other children.
I remember my church group giving us a talk (lecture) on the evils of smoking & how it’s a gateway to alcohol & drugs. The minister went on & on, & had some guest guy who also went on & on.
During the interval, the minister sat down and lit a cigarette. That’s when I was done with the church 😒
I had pretty much the same experience with church. Was asked, at 7 years old, not to return due to my cultivation of doubt. Never understood how people could be skeptical of everything except one specific book (and the preachers who adhered them to it).
Religious absolutism has gone from an insidious threat in the US, to an overt one. They aren’t even bothering to try and hide their agenda. The GOPvangelicals want everyone to live by their rules, and their beliefs. This is abhorrent to so many, yet it’s happening right now.
Why do people feel the need to make others conform to their beliefs?!? A gay person's relationship is nobody's business but theirs & has NO effect on anyone else. What consenting adults do in their private time is nobody else's business!
Josh Shriver knew, as he wrote those words, that they were both extreme and controversial. But he was a sad little boy who wasn’t hugged enough as a child, so he hit send anyway, knowing he’d get the comeuppance that he knew he deserved. Kinky bastard.
Narrator, also:
Josh Shriver is a miserable little closet queen who is such a charmless sociopath he can't get laid even for money. So he tries to grift off hate speech against LGBTs. What a self-loathing subhuman!
Since they have no intention of governing, the Troglodytes will busy themselves unraveling the past 100 years of progressive court rulings. Gay marriage, voting rights, interracial marriage, birth control, desegregation, separation of church and state... all on the chopping block.
Leave people tf alone. Why can’t these bible thumpers mind their own business? We aren’t bothering you. We don’t go door to door trying to sell you our way of life, you do.
What’s always so strange about them being called “Bible thumpers”, is that they aren’t even CLOSE to being a Christian & they’re definitely not opening their bibles 😂. They have no love or compassion. Hate, greed, power, & divisiveness is their god. They are nationalists, not Christian.
They basically stole an entire religion & made it about what’s in their dark hearts. Kinda like they do with everything else 🤦🏽♀️ Just know that this straight, black, Christian (most of the time lol) woman has your back & always will. I wear my pride shirt proudly! 💕
I don't understand why marriage is such an issue. Your marriage has absolutely no effect on my marriage. I've never convinced myself that who someone else loves is my business
For all the freedoms the republicans think they're going to take away from American citizens, at some point not far off they're going to regret not taking the guns.
Hmm. I wonder if that's the one line that even MAGA supporters won't let Trump cross? It's going to be both interesting and terrible to watch the next 4 years unfold.
The party claiming their freedom is being violated if legislators enact sane gun legislation has no problem seekign to deny people their fundamental rights.
I think this is why people struggle understanding them. They want to dominate and dictate.. if your miserable good.. you will have internal life that’s all that matters dying. So what happens here isn’t important unless it’s to dictate how others live that’s important..
Republican Jesus would, you know the one that loves the rich and greedy, doesn't like helping the poor and sick, believes in the power hate and cruelty.
Evangelical Christian’s happiness is not important. Following the rules and blind obedience. They even talk about sacrificing the worldly idea of happy for being dutiful and religious. They don’t expect to be happy and don’t value you it and care nothing about it.
But the whole fricking point of Christianity is to live your life in fear: afraid of annoying God, afraid of being ejected from their One and Only True Christian Church, afraid of the devil, and totally terrified by their innate urges. Their chosen symbol is a torture device for a good reason.
But true religion is not this. It is assurance that ALL fall short of the glory of God and thus Jesus, so that ALL are accepted in the Kingdom of God. No need for the church as an organized religion for that. They are directed only to love each other. Many, many false Christians and churches.
As a young girl, the church would tell me to ask for forgiveness for my sins. I was smart enough then to think, but I haven't done any sins.( maybe steal a cookie. 😂) I am now an atheist & proud of it.
I've always said that Christianity is bizarre for that reason alone. It makes some sense that now some of them (this is a real thing) wear pins of AR-15s to show their allegiance to weapons of war.
Exactly! 'God fearing' is regarded as a compliment to that lot. They could do with casting the mite from their own eye before coming after other people.
I'm an atheist so I don't believe this stuff, but there are plenty of gay couples who follow Jesus. And they are almost certainly better human beings and more Jesus-like than this bigot.
In this case, you should follow Joshua (who apparently believes he knows what Jesus thinks about gay marriage; read my lips, Joshua doesn't know the slightest idea about it).
I don't get why they are so afraid of same sex marriage. it isn't like any of them are loyal to their spouses or families. I'd never want family values like republicans in america.
They aren’t afraid. They hate that they have to ‘share’. Before, this was a perk, a right that only they were allowed to have to uphold their status as morally and socially superior. Equalizing it to them was pretty much soiling it, and seen as the dirty queers ’stealing’ this badge of honor
Don't know about "holy" now the New Testament has "holy" on the cover but the Old Testament ( what I call the real one) just has BIBLE on the cover...and Bible is just another word for , wait for it, BOOK...and it doesn't deal a lot with morality, just OBEDIENCE or ELSE!
And when they inevitably try to hand wave those points away by saying, "That's Old Testament, we're under the New Testament now.", remind them of Matthew 5:18 & Luke 16:17 the content of both having been said by their "Messiah/God". They cannot simply ignore parts that are inconvenient for them.
Matthew 5:18
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Their own book & god are clear that the "Law" is very much still in effect.
Of course, as is par for the course in the bible, it is contradicted in Romans 6 by Paul. But as the first two quotes come from Jesus, i.e. "God", and Romans was written by Paul, I'd say that "God's" words take precedence.
Its just a dishonest politician looking for clicks. He knows its controversial you'd have to be a complete moron to not at least think its controversial to say reverse gay marriage. He wants the outrage machine going so he can claim leftists are mad at him and make money. Better to ignore him.
But throwing hate against the wall to see what sticks is dangerous. Then all the sudden abortion rights are overturned and it’s illegal to teach black history.
Oh oh Joshy you racist, hateful, bigoted. Better go back to church and brush-up on the bible. Starting with Mathew 7:1-2. Because you messing with the wrong person.
With all world problems this shouldn’t even register as important, maybe it’s only important because dealing with real issues is beyond their comprehension
I could only stomach one full viewing, but whoah did that stand out. It felt like a high school kid was filming and he/she just learned how to change the angle.
This is why I demand Joe Biden use his absolute immunity declare the election invalid and martial law for the MagaQ response his oath the reason for his official act...the incoming administration is going to criminalize any and all opposition to their Christo Facist tyranny...
For the party preaching less government, they sure are preaching to add more. The government has no business in the relationships of consenting adults no matter the orientation or number.
I had to look him up back on the "other site" as I couldn't believe this was legit (never doubt George Takei!).
Anyway, it IS real! My God, I could go on and on but simply.....what harm to him do 2 same gender people loving each other create? #resist
Me too but you can only ignore it for so long. I grew up in a rural (now heavy MAGA) area. I've always given those people the benefit of the doubt because they generally aren't hateful
At same time, I experienced the "replacement theory" nonsense as a child in the 90s from friends and their parents anecdotally. I moved away for college and realized how racist it actually is. They truly aren't outwardly hateful people but definitely view non-whites as inferior on some level
Notice how they start with the most current thing?
Gay marriage should be illegal, interracial marriage was also illegal until 1967 and they used the exact same rhetoric but of course, this is different and doesn't compare to that!
To all of the Trump supporting gays, who said that the liberal gays were in hysteria, do they have any comments after a Republican House member has said the quiet part out loud?
I spent time with a gay MAGA married couple. I must say I was shocked at the misogyny, lack of awareness, and their position on immigration. Shocked. They are wealthy white men 🙄
There are many MAGA pushing back on Josh Schriver. Take a look on X...Shriver is getting hammered. Josh is a religious zealot, and he is being called out by both sides.
The 1st and 9th Amendment cover the rights to be free from having religious precepts shoved down our throats, or yanking away rights we've already retained. The 4th is supposed to keep us secure in our persons and papers. I know the rest of that poem. I'm scared to death. I'm also in Maine.
"First they came for the homosexuals,
and the mental asylum patients,
and the Roma,
all of whom I considered vermin,
so I threw them under the bus,
and I didn't even mention them in my poem afterwards.
No regrets!"
Not this old queen...
If a person doesn't support ALL of the community, they support none of the community and I will fight like hell for my trans-people. I'm old and have no time for games, trans people are people and deserve respect and dignity--- end of discussion.
But wait, there's more! Then they came for the migrants, w/help from naturalized citizens. Then they came for women who wanted equality, w/help from women who loved their gilded cages. Then they came for the unions, w/ help from union leaders. The level of betrayal is obscene.
Mr. takei anyone can see all the time that you're very brave man but at least keep in mind that they're perfectly capable of doing that and worse. Americans can't quite accept the horrors that are coming, it's comprehensible, but from the outside we can imagine how bad it might turn out.
Then it seems rather patronizing to me to tell him that he doesn’t see what’s coming, what can be done because it already HAS been done and he was there for it.
cool something online seemed something to someone.
Just mute or block me and quell your internal furies. Am I the only one of the two of us who knows what you desire from this?
Gay marriage has been legal but now this nutjob wants to outlaw it. Makes perfect sense to me. I have no doubt FOTUS (felon of the United States) would be in favor.
😮💨 I get it... I live in Arkansas. Living in a state that voted red feels like trying to herd squirrels sometimes.🤦♀️ Someone holler at MI & tell 'em to come get their boy before someone calls pest control. 😒😩
He is telling the public that he is a little man who is likely profoundly miserable. He is big mad because he was removed from committee assignments for being a jerk.
Not remotely controversial? Get all the F’ck out of today to next week with that. Why does this matter to them who marries who? Live your life and leave everyone be. George we will all defend your license with you.
Well did God say that? So the greek is pretty clear that the objection is not consenting adult relationships, but men and boys being subjected to power dynamics that are closer to rape/pedophilia.
Jesus says nothing on the matter.
It’s so strange. Didn’t republicans used to be live free or die types? Now republicans are little tyrants nosing into every minor detail of our lives. They must be miserable.
The GOP hypocrisy of Justice Thomas.
Get rid of:
Abortion;
Gay Marriage;
Who(m) can vote;
But he stopped at Loving Vs The State of Virginia.
Allowing interracial marriage. Wonder why ?
This infuriates me so effing much! These people do NOT get to define marriage for everyone based on THEIR religious beliefs. Marriage as a secular institution predates the Bible anyway. And of course, not everyone is Christian.
Homophobia isn't isolated to Christianity either. Pretty much only Buddhism leaves them alone.
It's ppl. It's always ppl:/
(Btw- Jesus said leave them alone- friends on WHO you talk to whether they'll listen to him;)
You're right & they keep recycling the same arguments over & over. "Sanctity of marriage" & all that. I want to ask them & others, like Newt Gingrich, "Which marriage? Your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd? Which one was the sacred one?" Because according to their own book, they're living in adultery.
They’re claiming marriage is a religious invention intended only for a man and a woman. They’re either ignoring the existence of civil marriage, or they want to ban that as well (which wouldn’t surprise me).
I'm SO tried of Christianity thinking its special and trying to force the world to play by its "rules". Your God isn't special, he's an amalgamated ripoff of every other religion before it. Your religion isn't love when it tells you to kill people for who they are.
Christianity is a front for organized crime. Every day, I see another priest or church official being arrested for child sex crimes. Then the church wants to come out and say they'll do an internal investigation. Maybe they should concentrate on that problem instead of attacking innocent people.
Being a religious tax exempt organization means never having to say you're sorry, because there's absolutely no accountability for what's done with donor money.
the adulterers and the ones who have kids out of wedlock are going to try and be the moral police? remind us about what the bible says to do to adulterers? who got a brick handy? girl please.
Not just the LGBTQ+, I assure you, there is a veritable army of us that fall nowhere on that spectrum that will go off the fucking rails. Nobody goes after my friends or families happiness without recompense, I will make it my life's mission to make their lives a living hell.
I agree. I'm retired and rely solely on Medicare for healthcare. It too is on the chopping block. And I have a happily married gay son. They just bought a home together. They want a fight, I'm all in. This is not my first rodeo.
Dtumps picks our all castered sheep they fallow him around like little 🐈🐈 they not man enough to stand up for the mothers wife's daughters or granddaughters. They can't stand anyone to be happy because they're all so miserable. My Son and nieces have the love of there lives and I'm happy for them.
The thing I don’t understand is : why the fuck is it anyone’s business who marries who???
I’m straight and married to a woman. So why should I care if the gay couple next door gets married? Good for them. It doesn’t change anything about my life.
Leave people alone for fucks sake…
Imo there are two reasons why someone wouldn't want gay marriage to be accessible 1. Ignorance or 2. Religion. Often hand in hand. Christianity believes that that sex is between a man and a women because baby making. Thats a women's role to them. Children.
Agreed. And what really bugs me is religion says homosexuality is an abomination against nature blah blah All that crap. But then I look at documentaries that show gay penguins adopting an extra egg. That’s nature right there!
Right, there are so many examples of platonic and lustful relationships that are between the same sex in nature. Dolphins, lions, otters. As you say penguins being a more platonic version. Homosexuality IS the normal. I believe thats it's the true default.
Don’t know about Default. But it’s at least a valid option. Not an abomination.
I look at it this way. I’m autistic. I didn’t ask for it. It isn’t a choice. It’s not a trauma response. It’s just who I am.
Being gay is the same thing.
My bro said that he thinks people don't know how to date anymore. It's because hes evangelical and believes marriage is for children. He's never so much as held a womens hand. He's been told a very set in stone definition to life. So hes homophobic because to him thats normal.
Ehhhhh not likely. More like he’s just been programmed with the overly religious doctrine so he actually believes he has to be homophobic to be a good Christian. Pretty common.
There a reason why the church is desperate to get people started while they’re young and impressionable.
Winterborn: I agree with you on how things SHOULD be. That said, if you have no clue why it matters so much to them, then... have you considered researching the topic? I mean, your question is kinda like asking why ice floats on water. It's been studied, and the answers are known.
Nah I fully understand the issue. What bugs me is why people are so narrow-minded about it.
I’ve tried playing devils advocate about why gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married, and I just can’t do it. There’s no valid reason except for religious views (which has no place in law-making).
Meh on that last. 1A prohibits imposing a State religion. That said, my church has fought for marriage equality on religious values grounds, in a coalition which includes priests, ministers and rabbis. Imams are welcome to the coalition, if any imams are ready to bless same-sex marriages.
and if you want to keep MLK's religious values out of civil rights legislation efforts, then only way to stop him is... okay, too soon, but Civil Rights movement would not have gone far without mobilizing the religious view that injustice is bad.
Because all MAGA care about are hurting people who can't fight back. They've taken being a bully, and made it a political identity; complete with the living embodiment of the concept as their avatar.
I've been going after bullies for 60 years. Got a reputation for protecting the SpecEd kids (my brother was disabled) and anyone else who needed help.
Guess I won't stop now.
As a Christian, I want gays to be able to marry. Also to get all the rights marraige entails, particularly where children, inheritance, and healthcare are involved. If I am to believe marraige is the good it is claimed to be, then it must extend to all.
I consider myself to be a Christian, and I have absolutely no problem with gay marriage. I want people to be happy,helpful to others, and honest about themselves.
Fascists need an Enemy™ to stoke hatred around. If these vile fuckstains got their evil wish and every queer person disappeared into a puff of smoke tomorrow, they'd pick someone new to direct their hate towards. The cruelty is the point.
The Bible never mentions or condemns the concept we call same-sex marriage. Although opponents of same-sex marriage claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender unions violate biblical principles, no verses in the Bible explicitly address gay marriage or committed same-sex relationships.
Come on the Bible is ridiculous but if it admonishes gay sex and it does then obviously gay marriage is forbidden unless you mean a non sexual partnership with Zero physicality
Marriage is a matter of religion. The State should not be involved. If your religion will not allow gay marriage, create a new one that does. The state should sanction civil unions between any two consenting adults. There is a public interest in civil unions because 2 heads are better than 1.
Is the state shouldn't be involved in marriage then I guess we need to fix tax and inheritance laws among other things. Try thinking a bit more on these topics before posting. Thanks
Easy fix: just change references to “spouse” in these laws to “domestic partner” while granting domestic partner status to everyone who is already married. A basic “search and replace.” Lots of laws are going to be reconsidered soon in any event. That’s what happens when an election flips power.
Not into gay marriage? Then marry cis. Projecting YOUR exclusionary, extreme ideology onto others with the cruel goal of destroying lives & stripping away rights from people who have just as much right to marry in this country as you, is the most extreme form bigotry and we denounce it. Full stop.
Considering it’s a spectrum, there isn’t a true opposite. Just let everyone do their thing and don’t mess with someone else’s happiness. The guiding rule should be “if no one is hurt, don’t mess with it.”
I don't get why this is such a big deal for some people.
How does it benefit the country to make an issue of who gets married?
What benefits are there for fighting about which bathroom a person uses?
What harm does it do to anyone if someone wants to dress differently?
It's just stupid.
It also justifies their very limited choices. It reinforces the BS. If people see other people doing whatever. The church loses control. I’m not convinced the leaders actually believe this shit.. I believe they see it as a way to limit choices therefore limit control.
Of course they feel justified, because they are simply so frightened of not being able to tell people what to do, to say, and to believe without being questioned.
And of course they don't really believe what they're spewing, but they get the gullible to support them when they say it.
The church primarily objects because it causes their member to “sin”. I.E. people disagree with their bullshit and if there is an alternative they will go with that. If no alternative then they are stuck with the churches bullshit.. decoded “causing people to sin”
Which is totally irony because they are the first to bleat about how they are discriminated against b/c people hate their ideas and tell them to fuck off. They are the least discriminated against …
There is that to take into consideration.
This constant effort to malign others as "ungodly" plays right into the fake "prosperity gospel" that has pushed some so called Christian leaders into immense wealth and political status.
It's been a big thing since Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn. Cohn of course was gay and flitted around Europe with his boyfriend doing "research" on the "Red Scare".
Reagan sent him to a military research hospital for treatment of Aids but had them fake forms saying he died of liver failure.
Exactly this, they want to pocket the money for their own. That’s what dictatorships do….look at the very sad state of 🇷🇺
The Americans that voted for chaos should be sent to 🇷🇺 and see how they like it, then come back and tell us how your really feel, but we did know this and try to warn.
I grew up in that evangelical culture. We were taught that God would punish the whole country if we allowed gay people to live openly and happily. We saw gay marriage as a literal threat to our well-being.
Conservative Christian men are gonna get real mad after they ban birth control and then their wives won't sleep with them anymore because they don't want any more kids... 🤷🏽♀️
Thomas has not directly suggested revisiting Loving. However, the substantive due process doctrine he is so critical of is part of the basis to Loving. However, another part was equal protection, and he could defend Loving on that basis.
Agreed, though they’ll argue (disingenuously) that equal protection is not violated as people of different colors are fully free to marry after their own kind and those marriages would be respected.
They’ll argue something along those lines when they overturn Obergefell.
No. It is the conservative interpretation of the essence of freedom: you are free to do anything that I consider acceptable. Otherwise you will be punished.
It should be noted that substantive due process Thomas is so critical of was part of the basis for the Loving v. Virginia decision that protects Thomas's interracial marriage.
If the ship hasn't sunk, it can sail back. In this case, the ship builder built more ships and now we've got a fleet of sick christian nationalists that want to rule our lives.
well i am afraid Senate Republicans are going to have to grow spines and tell him no. As of now it looks like he is surrounded by yes men who will not stop him from anything.
Only until THEIR personal rights are attacked. This is why we are clawing back abortion rights. Note that one of Trump's appointees is a married gay man (Scott Bessent). Most of this will be decided at the state level, over time, they will be (again) enshrined federally.
Bloody Republicans! The extreme bigotry running rampant is appalling. Honestly, what century are we supposed to be living in. Trump kept banging on about taking America back to the 1800s. Who’d have thought he was serious. From here in the UK, George, you and every sane American are in my thoughts.
Imagine living in a world that is facing so much division, hate, and even wars, and choosing to place your energy against letting some people love who they love. Less hate, more love!
Let us do what's always done. Let's roll the abhorrent, wholly unnecessary, and antithetical-to-humanity proposed National Prohibition of Gay Marriage Act into a bill that would also simultaneously remove tax-exempt status from every Major Religion in the United States. That would end that, I think.
69%?
Nice!
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I staffed a lobby day in the California state capital years ago, when domestic partnership was the most we hoped for. No matter the setbacks, the USA has come a long way. No regrets.
75% of Americans think access to abortion should be legal and 93% want some form of common sense gun control. That doesn’t stop congress from being derelict in their duties as elected representatives.
This is obviously terrible, but what’s up with that 5% differential between the respondents that said “gay marriage should be legal”, & “gay unions are morally sound”? 😂
“Yes, they’re obviously going STRAIGHT to hell, but awww, I still want to go to a golden gay wedding anniversaryyyy, come onn 🥹”
Apparently, this so-called representative did not do his research. And his education profile says he graduated with a Bachelor's degree at MSU. This guy sounds like he has the education level of Lauren Boebert (She has a GED) or Madison Cawthorn (a college dropout at a lower tier college).
College graduates are supposed to know how to do research to backup their statements. And they are supposed to have good logical and critical thinking skills to backup their statements. This guy has the critical and logical thinking and research skills of an elementary school student.
Pork is forbidden in the Bible. Contrary to what Fox News says, public school kindergartners in California are not getting tape job lessons from drag queens. Pork is ubiquitous in school lunchrooms all over the US. If we really care about the Bible, we’d get the pork out of the lunchroom.
This is all those politicians that represent armpit/dogshit districts have to do. They don’t have to improve their lives or pass bills that are good for the country. Just give the racist pieces of shit they represent this culture war bullshit. They live for it. Kick rocks.
I can understand why some people hate the idea that it's self-hate and reoression, but there are websites listing enough "scandals" with them being caught doing the things they denounce in public often enough that it's hard not to put that in the top 3 reasons.
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They think they can afford to stop being so tight-lipped about everything now.
Their time would be better spent protecting children from the epidemic of paedophile church officials 😒
One of my earliest memories is when the Bible teacher told my mom that I was a bad kid because I kept asking questions during class. I guess they didn't want me enlightening the other children.
During the interval, the minister sat down and lit a cigarette. That’s when I was done with the church 😒
Josh Shriver knew, as he wrote those words, that they were both extreme and controversial. But he was a sad little boy who wasn’t hugged enough as a child, so he hit send anyway, knowing he’d get the comeuppance that he knew he deserved. Kinky bastard.
Josh Shriver is a miserable little closet queen who is such a charmless sociopath he can't get laid even for money. So he tries to grift off hate speech against LGBTs. What a self-loathing subhuman!
United we stand, divided we fall 🫶🏼 Thank you Ken
I want you to get a little REST!
Do you sleep?
Child labour laws ?
Wow
That day is not far off.
Which is NOT what Christ preached.
But, this has nothing to do with Christianity, anyway. This is just a gross shithead with nothing better to do than grift off the right wing.
These MAGA Christians understand as much about their professed faith as they do about geo-politics.
I call them “Phucking Pharisees.”
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
Of course, as is par for the course in the bible, it is contradicted in Romans 6 by Paul. But as the first two quotes come from Jesus, i.e. "God", and Romans was written by Paul, I'd say that "God's" words take precedence.
This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme"
How are these stains not ostracized into obscurity?
But throwing hate against the wall to see what sticks is dangerous. Then all the sudden abortion rights are overturned and it’s illegal to teach black history.
This is not remotely controversial, or extreme.
He needs to study his religion and ethics more.
They've clearly gone too long without being screamed at in Klingon as they get tossed through a wall.
Anyway, it IS real! My God, I could go on and on but simply.....what harm to him do 2 same gender people loving each other create? #resist
Young red voters. The kind who don't read and think gay marriage is a clear right.
It's pretty depressing that they're so blind.
One might even suggest they're willfully so.
Gay marriage should be illegal, interracial marriage was also illegal until 1967 and they used the exact same rhetoric but of course, this is different and doesn't compare to that!
(and if I have to complete the damn poem all is lost anyway)
First they came for the transgenders, and then they found out some of us are CPL holding veterans and they said "oh, wait..."
and the mental asylum patients,
and the Roma,
all of whom I considered vermin,
so I threw them under the bus,
and I didn't even mention them in my poem afterwards.
No regrets!"
- Martin Niemoeller
If a person doesn't support ALL of the community, they support none of the community and I will fight like hell for my trans-people. I'm old and have no time for games, trans people are people and deserve respect and dignity--- end of discussion.
Why he was the first person I followed here
Just mute or block me and quell your internal furies. Am I the only one of the two of us who knows what you desire from this?
Jesus says nothing on the matter.
Should have a end of life date attached.
10 years/20 years. You choose.
The GOP want to invade your privacy and dictate how you live and who you love
What books you can read and what healthcare you are allowed to have…Vaccines
What your children learn in school and force their religious beliefs down your throat
Get rid of:
Abortion;
Gay Marriage;
Who(m) can vote;
But he stopped at Loving Vs The State of Virginia.
Allowing interracial marriage. Wonder why ?
Looking forward to that legal pretzel.
This is the worst timeline.
I’m for shunning. Removing people from polite society. Mocking.
But what can you expect of a Cult based on a work of fiction?
Oh, yeah..MORMONS.
It's ppl. It's always ppl:/
(Btw- Jesus said leave them alone- friends on WHO you talk to whether they'll listen to him;)
We *WILL* make it messy for them.
I’m straight and married to a woman. So why should I care if the gay couple next door gets married? Good for them. It doesn’t change anything about my life.
Leave people alone for fucks sake…
I look at it this way. I’m autistic. I didn’t ask for it. It isn’t a choice. It’s not a trauma response. It’s just who I am.
Being gay is the same thing.
There a reason why the church is desperate to get people started while they’re young and impressionable.
These people look at the same thing and ask "is it in line with my morals?" And if it's not, they deem it as disgusting.
But It doesn't affect their chance for heaven so it still begs the question why care?
I’ve tried playing devils advocate about why gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married, and I just can’t do it. There’s no valid reason except for religious views (which has no place in law-making).
You know, MAGATs of the RNP(REPUBLICAN NAZI PARTY).
Fortunately for me, I enjoy crushing bullies.
Guess I won't stop now.
If they're kept busy fighting for their own rights, then it's harder for them to lobby for other social improvements
https://youtu.be/WI_Ki-7aj_U?si=Q-sAYugO4z4BuiNa
The US is supposed to be a secular country.
Follow whatever religion brings you* peace but stop using religion as a cudgel to hammar others into compliance
*General you, not Dwandd
Regarding the wording, I just meant that the words “cis” and “trans” come from Latin and mean “this side of” and “the other side of” respectively.
Lexically “cis” and “trans” are opposites but cis and trans people are not opposites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis–trans_isomerism
How does it benefit the country to make an issue of who gets married?
What benefits are there for fighting about which bathroom a person uses?
What harm does it do to anyone if someone wants to dress differently?
It's just stupid.
And of course they don't really believe what they're spewing, but they get the gullible to support them when they say it.
Now where have seen that before
By holding the power of what is "good" and what is "evil" they control choices for others and the narru.
People make a lot of money by controlling the narrative.
Also, there are those who just hate themselves
This constant effort to malign others as "ungodly" plays right into the fake "prosperity gospel" that has pushed some so called Christian leaders into immense wealth and political status.
Which is very sad as well as very scary.
Reagan sent him to a military research hospital for treatment of Aids but had them fake forms saying he died of liver failure.
The Americans that voted for chaos should be sent to 🇷🇺 and see how they like it, then come back and tell us how your really feel, but we did know this and try to warn.
Griswold = the right to birth control
Lawrence = the right to be gay at all
Obergefell = right to gay marriage
This is from Justice Thomas's concurrence in Dobbs eliminating the right to abortion.
They’ll argue something along those lines when they overturn Obergefell.
https://medium.com/@keithdb/substantive-due-process-the-thinning-legal-line-aeaa0ca340c7
Nonstop
Their ultimate goal is the death penalty for gay people.
bigoted as they are. Look what they have done to their schools.
Get worse in 2025 I’m afraid
There is a significant apathetic or frustrated number of voters in the US right now and they're not thinking of their community, just themselves.
Otherwise, my own wedding ring and the promises I made to my wife are worthless.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/646202/sex-relations-marriage-supported.aspx
(Someone had to say it)
Nice!
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I staffed a lobby day in the California state capital years ago, when domestic partnership was the most we hoped for. No matter the setbacks, the USA has come a long way. No regrets.
Didn't stop them.
“Yes, they’re obviously going STRAIGHT to hell, but awww, I still want to go to a golden gay wedding anniversaryyyy, come onn 🥹”
There's one thing he's right about, just not in the way he wants it to be: This is not at all controversial, nowadays.
I mean it's in the Bible and everything.
This is remotely not controvetsial, nit extreme".
The gall on these guys.
This obsession with genitalia is just beyond me.
We need all of our allies (internationally) to be very clear and *very* loud in their support right now.
So this comment is *greatly* appreciated 🩷❤️