It is sufficiently idiotic to call "gay marriage" a civil right and to celebrate its supposed succes

[fpb]

What is positively cretinous is to do so when the gift comes from a party and an Administration that have literally violated every article of the Bill of Rights except for an obsolete one, and would probably violate that one too if it ever occurred to them. Don't you see the relationship? The politicians inventing pseudo-rights that do nothing for

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[luckymarty]

Obama's administration also attacked the traditional understanding of freedom of religion in Hosanna-Tabor Church v. EEOC, which had to do with churchs' rights to define their own ministers; that is, independence in terms of personnel -- a position so extreme that *all nine* Supreme Court justices joined in the decision against it.

(This is the one gleam of hope about the HHS mandate, and it's a significant one. But of course it doesn't come close to the shattering realization that to most of the country freedom of religion and the rule of law are nowhere naer as important as the right to have other people pay for your contraceptives.)

I don't know what new attacks will be launched on the churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church, of course) in the next four years, but it's as close to certain as anything can be that attacks will be made.

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The tenth amendment has been a dead letter for years -- I'm not sure there's even a fringe movement seriously attempting to revive it, though if there were I would join

[frenchpresser]

Sure, Obama ushered in the NDAA, the death of web neutrality, an extended Patriot Act, a fleet of aerial killdrones straight out of a William Gibson novel, shrugged helplessly while Americans were slaughtered in Libya, and a whole bunch of other things that Democrats would be furious about if a Republican were doing it... But thank God he's pro-gay marriage and says a lot of really positive things that make us all feel good, unlike all those anti-Hope-ers!

[neemarita]

Thank you for all your points. I wish I could show this to some friends who would surely regret their vote, but logic is no way to get through to them for they do not think but base their vote on emotions and "let's make everything fair".

[thefish30]

It's sickeningly dismaying to see it laid out in order this way. I'll be quoting and promoting this post.

[ext_386567]

Isn't the fine or whatever this extortion is legally called $1000/day/person? I may be wrong on this and it is still ruinous.