The SCOTUS ruling made me scratch my head when I heard it because I had no idea a ruling was even being debated at the time.
The timing just seems strange - like, why now? Why was this not being attempted in the late 90s or something?
It had been on the docket for like the last six months and aside from the ACA the most highly anticipated ruling.
I think the way this decision was handled is extremely poor, and will ultimately be damaging to the campaign for overall acceptance of gays in U.S. society.
??? WTF??? What are you talking about? something like 65% of the country supports gay marriage. They handled the ruling the same way the court always handles rulings “We find in favor of …”
I think that simple democratic process, rather than a supreme court ruling, would have eventually led to something like this anyway.
So, you are in favor of letting a minority group get fucked over until we all agree it sucks? well over half the country wanted marriage equality, that is a simple majority. pretend that’s why the SCOTUS stepped in.
Society seemed like it was already trending in this direction; so as usual this seems like a deliberate attempt by central authority to simply get us all yelling and screaming at each other over petty “culture war” positions while their other nefarious activities go totally unnoticed.
Like what they did when separate but equal was stuck down and integration was forced upon poor old southerners, right?
As it now stands now, the suddenness of the decision is going to freak out a lot of the kind of people who already think their ‘traditional’ culture is being destroyed,
The exact people who were gravitating towards acceptance, right?
I predict (and the word there is predict, not hope) there will be more than a little bit of boneheaded retaliatory violence.
best to just let us spit upon the gay instead the establishment forcing us to beat upon them??? never violence towards gays but now this ruling changes everything. the gloves are off!!! [mad]
Gotta say I can’t quite follow let alone agree with your brand of logic here.