Ban on Same-Sex Marriage overturned by Supreme Court

[Pogues]

Being reported right now. By a 5-4 decision all states must now allow same sex marriages. So those 13 holdouts can go screw themselves!

[joncarlos]

Thank god for the 5 reasonable people on the Supreme Court who are saving us from ourselves.

[Stephen]

It's about time.

[Kevin Seitzer]

can go screw themselves

Are you sure that doesn't violate any laws?

[nullnor]

Whoa, Scalia's dissent is perhaps the most psychotic, unhinged opinion I've ever read in a Supreme Court case. He normally comes across as a dick, but an intelligent dick. This is just....wow, it's hard for me to even describe it. He sounds like a crazy person.

that's what I said, from the position that the states said they were defending the right to support absent fathers. what did Scalia say?

[Erik]

A lot of screwy stuff, including how the court is unrepresentative because it has no one from the west, "and California doesn't count."

[Fresno Bob]

Scalia and Chenney are the two most evil americans of the last 50 years

[Kevin Seitzer]

Whoa, Scalia's dissent is perhaps the most psychotic, unhinged opinion I've ever read in a Supreme Court case. He normally comes across as a dick, but an intelligent dick. This is just....wow, it's hard for me to even describe it. He sounds like a crazy person.

It certainly reads like him throwing a fit that he lost.

[nullnor]

even the smartest ppl in the world expose their total ignorance and nature when it comes to the subject of sex. it's the best lie detector or character assessment out there.

I suppose that could mean a lot of things, but even when you look at the greatest minds out there, obviously I don't mean scalia, they never could keep it in their pants. and to me that diminishes their accomplishments. and I don't mean gay ppl like turing. I mean the heterosexuals.

you're not a good scientist when your fucking the nurse, while your wife is dying of cancer. which is what I bet the majority of them are doing.

[mjl]

A lot of screwy stuff, including how the court is unrepresentative because it has no one from the west, "and California doesn't count."

as someone at work commented:

"Marriage equality? We can't decide that without a southwesterner on the court, we need to represent the whole country!"
"There aren't any gay people on the court."
"What business is it of theirs?"

[nullnor]

and I sound like some future morality cop. but seriously there's book smarts and then there's sex smarts. we build these book smart ppl up so much, only to find they have major flaws when it comes to sex. then you wonder about their logic. im just sayin... maybe they aren't so smart after all.

[Kevin Seitzer]

I do wonder if this is how it felt when Brown v. Board of Education was decided.

Where is Ike when you need him?

[onejayhawk]

I do wonder if this is how it felt when Brown v. Board of Education was decided.

Good grief. I hope not. Perspective on aisle 9 please.

I am interested to see how all the language about religion. If I understand correctly, the Court was unanimous that religious freedoms must be protected. What each Justice means by that is a question for another day.

J

[Pogues]

A lot of screwy stuff, including how the court is unrepresentative because it has no one from the west, "and California doesn't count."

Yeah, that's a good point. There's also nobody from my family on the court...so any decision I don't like I'll just rant and rave my family is not represented on the court.

[Kevin Seitzer]

More on point is Loving v. Virginia, where the Court ruled that states could not ban interracial marriage.

I understand that Loving v. Virginia is more directly analogous in terms of subject matter. But I don't get the sense that it was received by the American public at large as a ground-breaking, societal-shifting, change-the-whole-fabric-of-what-our-freedoms-mean decision. It seems to me that Brown v. the Board of Education was the last time that happened. Roe v. Wade has taken on some aspects of that over time, but I don't think it was received as such at the time.