Marriage Now Fabulous, SCOTUS Rules for Same Sex Marriage

[Liriena]

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

The power of increasingly supportive polls.

[Norstal]

War over marriage equality?

Well, good luck beating the overwhelmingly pro-LGBT NATO.

IT will not just be here it will be a world crusade to purge the world of sin! GOD WILLS IT!

Well Information Technology is pretty much everywhere so you're right.

[Divitaen]

Late post, but this is amazing news! Now the US can finally, finally join the rest of the developed, civilised world in something that ought to have been legal common sense.

Truly we can all rest easy. America no longer risks being confused with the jungle savages, camel herders or communists.

Rephrasing something in a hyperbolic banner doesn't make it untrue. If you give one couple certain benefits and deny other couple the same benefits for something as superficial as gender composition, it takes a lot of mouth-breathing ignorance to consider that ok. You are basically condemning a whole group of people to second-class citizenry, its a governmental acceptance that they are of inferior worth, value and dignity. I don't want to harp on that but I would say keeping same-sex marriage bans is the equivalent of utter barbarity.

[Roski]

Late post, but this is amazing news! Now the US can finally, finally join the rest of the developed, civilised world in something that ought to have been legal common sense.

"The rest of the developed world" doesn't recognize gay marriage, at least as of yet (iirc)

[Neo Rome Republic]

I find both the Obamacare Ruling and the Gay Marriage Ruling to be a step in the right direction. We still have many problems in this country that addressed, but I think this is a stepping stone in the right direction.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

This is an easy one/win in this case. Anyone who opposes SSM is automatically painted by the media/supporters as intolerant, hateful, backwards, bigots, etc.

I say that as a supporter generally speaking of SSM, just for the record.

[The Kievan People]

Well, no. There's still the death penalty.

If only America was whiter like Europe it wouldn't have to be this way ;_;

[The 502nd SS]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

[Roski]

I find both the Obamacare Ruling and the Gay Marriage Ruling to be a step in the right direction. We still have many problems in this country that addressed, but I think this is a stepping stone in the right direction.

I find 50% of those two rulings as correct.

[Divitaen]

Late post, but this is amazing news! Now the US can finally, finally join the rest of the developed, civilised world in something that ought to have been legal common sense.

"The rest of the developed world" doesn't recognize gay marriage, at least as of yet (iirc)

Well, I kind of meant developed as in developed human rights standards, but most OECD nations have legalised it. America was falling behind and finally caught up. That's all.

[The Alma Mater]

Late post, but this is amazing news! Now the US can finally, finally join the rest of the developed, civilised world in something that ought to have been legal common sense.

"The rest of the developed world" doesn't recognize gay marriage, at least as of yet (iirc)

Quite a lot of western Europe does. And South Africa for some reason

[The Rich Port]

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

It's his last term. He's turned into President I Don't Give a Fuck About Those Right-Wing Assholes.

Good point.

He did win that second term already, after all.

Everything after that is just icing on the Michelle mouth hug cake.

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

This is an easy one/win in this case. Anyone who opposes SSM is automatically painted by the media/supporters as intolerant, hateful, backwards, bigots, etc.

I say that as a supporter generally speaking of SSM, just for the record.

Explain to us how they're not.

[The 93rd Coalition]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

No. This is civil marriage, not the religious variant. You can ask a priest, but even if he does it it's illegal because the Church doesn't support it.

[Lordareon]

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

It's his last term. He's turned into President I Don't Give a Fuck About Those Right-Wing Assholes.

From the granite face of Rushmore
To the enslaved land of Seattle,
From this great dream, our City
To Washington, which are both American!

Keep the banner flying, victory awaits us
With heads held high and firm hearts
In this world, we will show how lives
The price of an impregnable fortress of courage!

Fight mercilessly and with awesome fury
With courage, comrades, the walls of our enemies,
With the Golden Dawn will come a day
With millions fighting by our side!

[Norstal]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

No because allowing gay marriage != forcing gay marriage.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

I highly doubt that. In Canada as far as I know, e.g. there is no such concern.

And being from Canada which has had SSM on the books for years now, guess what...families still have kids, men and women still get married and raise families. Things are just fine here.*

*Minus Stephen Harper.

[Divitaen]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

No because allowing gay marriage != forcing gay marriage.

Honestly, if SCOTUS found Hobby Lobby a case of religious freedom, I don't think American priests ever have to fear the day when they will literally be forced to marry gay couples. Like seriously.

[Eastern Equestria]

It's his last term. He's turned into President I Don't Give a Fuck About Those Right-Wing Assholes.

From the granite face of Rushmore
To the enslaved land of Seattle,
From this great dream, our City
To Washington, which are both American!

Keep the banner flying, victory awaits us
With heads held high and firm hearts
In this world, we will show how lives
The price of an impregnable fortress of courage!

Fight mercilessly and with awesome fury
With courage, comrades, the walls of our enemies,
With the Golden Dawn will come a day
With millions fighting by our side!

What in the Sam Hill are you even trying to convey?

[Neutraligon]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

No

[The Rich Port]

From the granite face of Rushmore
To the enslaved land of Seattle,
From this great dream, our City
To Washington, which are both American!

Keep the banner flying, victory awaits us
With heads held high and firm hearts
In this world, we will show how lives
The price of an impregnable fortress of courage!

Fight mercilessly and with awesome fury
With courage, comrades, the walls of our enemies,
With the Golden Dawn will come a day
With millions fighting by our side!

What in the Sam Hill are you even trying to convey?

... Row Row Fight the Powah?

[Roski]

Will priest be forced to preform the ceremony or be faced with fines/loss of tax exemption?

No

He'll be booed and lose business, or LGBT groups are going to throw a hissy fit and cause him more business.

Tis a slippery slope

"The rest of the developed world" doesn't recognize gay marriage, at least as of yet (iirc)

Quite a lot of western Europe does. And South Africa for some reason

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark,[nb 1] France, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,[nb 2] New Zealand,[nb 3] Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom,[nb 4] the United States and Uruguay

I see, I was wrong, there are 11 other "civilized" countries that have those laws.

[Liriena]

Late post, but this is amazing news! Now the US can finally, finally join the rest of the developed, civilised world in something that ought to have been legal common sense.

"The rest of the developed world" doesn't recognize gay marriage, at least as of yet (iirc)

That really depends on what you refer to by "developed world". If you mean Western Europe, then Divitaen is mostly right, since right now only the Merkelreich, Northern Ireland and Italy don't recognise marriage equality, but all other states in Western Europe do.

[Liberty and Linguistics]

I'm amazed Obama is supporting this as much as he is.

He usually likes to be President Neutral.

The power of increasingly supportive polls.

Unless I'm misinformed, Gallup polls revealed that more than 50% of millenial republicans even support same sex marriage.

[Norstal]

What in the Sam Hill are you even trying to convey?

... Row Row Fight the Powah?

We can finally drill anyone we want.

[Gauthier]

From the granite face of Rushmore
To the enslaved land of Seattle,
From this great dream, our City
To Washington, which are both American!

Keep the banner flying, victory awaits us
With heads held high and firm hearts
In this world, we will show how lives
The price of an impregnable fortress of courage!

Fight mercilessly and with awesome fury
With courage, comrades, the walls of our enemies,
With the Golden Dawn will come a day
With millions fighting by our side!

What in the Sam Hill are you even trying to convey?

Maybe he thinks if he can write a song quick enough he can make this Supreme Court overturn itself?