RT @tperkins: #SCOTUS #marriage ruling is shocking abuse of power, and will never be accepted http://t.co/w42EotKVHj
— FRC (@FRCdc) June 26, 2015
Maybe this one from the AFA makes sense in context.
"behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war" (Rev19:11). #Reigns
— American Family Assc (@AmericanFamAssc) June 26, 2015
For a different kind of tears, here is the Stonewall Inn on Pride Week.
***Update***
For those of you who were worried, as far as I can tell the greatest threat to my marriage is still whether ON the laundry basket counts as IN the laundry basket. It does, right?
Cervantes
Absolutely.
Elizabelle
Love wins. Sanity prevails. A good week at the Supreme Court.
Elizabelle
And you just got big rainbow-footed, Tim F.
But cannot celebrate today and yesterday too much. Even as the afternoon will be mourning for the late, great Clementa Pinckney.
AdamK
Next thing you know these radicals will be arguing for NEAR the laundry basket. Slopes is slippery, folks.
beltane
What does a white horse have to do with anything? The AFA is the horse’s ass as far as I’m concerned.
mrmcd
No tears sweeter than Scalia’s tears. From NYT:
Justice Antonin Scalia used his dissent as an opportunity to muse on the meaning of marriage and intimacy and he questioned whether the latter was, in fact, a freedom.
“And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage” Justice Scalia wrote. “Ask the nearest hippie.”
Yep, a sitting SCOTUS justice actually writing a legal opinion that amounts to “Lol stupid hippies you can’t fuck anyone else once you’re married DOES THAT SOUND LIKE FREEDOM TO YOU???”
Cervantes
@AdamK:
In the same (five-digit) ZIP code as the laundry basket.
Omnes Omnibus
All I can say is thank god I got divorced in 2012; at least my marriage is safe.
SuperHrefna
@beltane: I think it’s a quote about the apocalypse, but this atheist is too happy and lazy to check.
This is wonderful. We really needed some good news after the Charleston assassinations and SCOTUS is delivering in spades. We’ve got Obamacare and marriage equality. Yes, they may screw us on other decisions, but having those two cornerstones of a more fair and just society in place is HUGE.
SuperHrefna
Is that top tweet from the same organization that employed Josh Duggar? They would know all about shocking abuses of power.
geg6
@SuperHrefna:
BOOM!
Good one.
beltane
@mrmcd: Scalia may as well have referred to his wife as “the old ball and chain.”
Fr33d0m
Depends on the perspective of the laundry basket. Still, you put your clothes in the basket. That is unless the kids were playing with it and left it upside down and you weren’t looking when you threw he shorts on the basket.
Iowa Old Lady
@Elizabelle: I hope the Pinckney funeral has good security A whole lot of haters just had their world made smaller.
Tim F.
@Fr33d0m: For the sake of argument, let’s say that the basket is tall and has a lid.
PurpleGirl
Of related interest: Within the last week, the Stonewall Inn was granted Historic Preservation status. Already part of an historic district and being a federal historic site, this new status rounds out protections for the building from changes.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I have to admit, having two days of good news in a row is making me very, very nervous about the Arizona redistricting case. The conservative assholes on the SC have trained me to think the worst of them.
PurpleGirl
@SuperHrefna:
I think it’s a quote about the apocalypse, but this atheist is too happy and lazy to check.
Yup, it’s a quote referencing the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Each horse and its horseman had a distinct mission.
Specialed5000
PurpleGirl
@SuperHrefna: Yes, Duggar worked for the Family Research Council.
WaterGirl
@Tim F.: I say ON is good enough. Of course, I’m a spirit of the law kind of person. If your spouse is a letter of the law person, I’m afraid you will have to put it IN to get full credit.
Gimlet
Does this make all those “Religious Freedom” laws irrelevant?
Spirula
It counts when words no longer have meaning.
shell
I wonder how many straight marrieds are secretly hoping today’s decision WILL destroy their marriage?
Cervantes
@Spirula:
You sound very familiar …
Stella B
My husband would tell you that ON the counter above the dishwasher counts as IN the dishwasher. ON this point I disagree. I’m sure his future gay husband will straighten him out, so to speak, with respect to this point.
LAC
Please tell me there is a line of screechy wingnuts all waiting at the airport to leave this “fallen” country.
West of the Cascades
Scalia says that “in” means “in,” but Kennedy, writing for the majority, says that “in” must be interpreted to mean “on” in the broader context of marriage, relying in part on the interpretive precedent in King.
ThresherK
@Spirula: Is “laundry Jenga” a thing, like “garbage Jenga”?
CONGRATULATIONS!
@beltane: Or my favorite – “The Warden”
Bubblegum Tate
My wife’s fevered dream that hanging the toilet paper roll in the “under” configuration is acceptable threatens to tear our marriage in twain.
Adam L. Silverman
Apparently AFA has a different understanding and numbering system of verses for the 4 Horsemen. The White Horse, identified with Conquest and either Jesus or the Holy Spirit, is described in Revelations 6:19. What they appear to have done is actually present this more along the lines of the Church of Latter Day Saint’s White Horse Prophecy. This calls for a rider on a white horse to appear when the Constitution “hangs by a thread” to save the Republic. That AFA would go there, given the evangelical hostility to LDS, is interesting and potentially significant. Especially as many Mormons put forward that a Governor Romeny in 2012 might by the fulfillment of the White Horse Prophecy.
Adam L Silverman
Disregard that previous comment. Just double checked. 19:11 refers specifically to the avenging Jesus returned commanding the Host of Heaven from astride the white horse on judgement day, which clarifies, of course, the question as to whether the rider of the white horse was Jesus or the Holy Spirit. Aside from having to return my education from the Jesuits, I think this actually means that AFA is calling for judgement day over this. Given that trying to literally understand the mystical vision of a religious ascetic in isolation on an island 2,000 years ago makes little sense, this is what they’re referring to. Sorry for the rabbit hole.
Brendan in Charlotte
@beltane: oh to be on Twitter and paraphrase Rev 19:11:
Not to mention – listened to Limbaugh say that Scalia described the ruling as a “judicial putsch”. I immediately thought – A judicial putz thinks it’s a judicial putsch…BTW Don’t judge me – it’s oppo research.
gus
I know schadenfreude isn’t an attractive thing. I should be a better person, but the butthurt from assholes like Scalia, the AFA, and FRC is really hard to not enjoy the hell out of.
steverino
@Tim F.: As far as my wife is concerned, the laundry basket is another horizontal surface upon which to pile clothes-not-yet-put-away, mixed with clothes-worn-once-but-not-dirty. A rather interesting role reversal; I joke about the “laundry fairy,” but in fact it is I.
Our bigger issue, with no childs around to worry about, is her not putting the cap firmly on the allergy-pill bottle, such that when I pick it up they spill all over. Because she can’t open the child-proof cap.
MazeDancer
Lawyers of the Commentariat, how does today’s Equality ruling affect adoption?
Justice Kennedy spoke of children. Benefitting children was one of his reasons for Equality. But are all gay people, single or otherwise, now equal adopters? Just married couples, because their marriage is equal? Or is this a new area of rights that must be established?
Just this week Michigan Gov signed an odious faith-based hater bill preventing adoption. The nation is full of children who need parents, so are their hopes and dreams now “equal” or is there more to be done?
Cervantes
@steverino:
Love is a many-splendored thing.
Fr33d0m
@Tim F.: Then it might better be called a hamper. But if it really matters, the bottom of the basket is part of the basket so notwithstanding the lid–if it were in the basket–things are always on the basket as well as in it.