Supreme Court rules states must allow same-sex marriage

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Same goes for the county clerks. They can issue the license. They are not asked to enter into a same sex marriage.

Agree with you

[JohnR! 5,495]

But in many ways that's really how it works. You can continue to believe whatever your superstitious beliefs tell you to, and that has nothing to do with the people to whom you're issuing marriage licenses. One has nothing to do with the other. What next? You'll have clerks refusing to issue driver licenses for divorced individuals? Or no more divorce licenses to those who eat cheeseburgers?

I so wish these morons came upon a Muslim server at a restaurant who will refuse to serve them non-halal meat items for that would violate the sincerely held religious beliefs of the server.

Statistically 50% of these county clerks are divorced themselves and continue to issue marriage licenses to divorced individuals... Got hypocrisy?

Same goes for the county clerks. They can issue the license. They are not asked to enter into a same sex marriage.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

But in many ways that's really how it works. You can continue to believe whatever your superstitious beliefs tell you to, and that has nothing to do with the people to whom you're issuing marriage licenses. One has nothing to do with the other. What next? You'll have clerks refusing to issue driver licenses for divorced individuals? Or no more divorce licenses to those who eat cheeseburgers?

Statistically 50% of these county clerks are divorced themselves and continue to issue marriage licenses to divorced individuals... Got hypocrisy?

Edited July 1, 2015 by Transborderwife

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

They are not asked to enter into a same sex marriage.

They should be! Forced gay marriages for all!

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They should be! Forced gay marriages for all!

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Appeals Court Takes Formal Step To End Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Marriage Bans

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/appeals-court-takes-formal-step-to-end-texas-louisiana-same#.wreVRzmZW

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Appeals Court Takes Formal Step To End Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Marriage Bans

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/appeals-court-takes-formal-step-to-end-texas-louisiana-same#.wreVRzmZW

So, in a nutshell, the bigots lose again.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Right in the footsteps of Wallace and many others since....

So, in a nutshell, the bigots lose again.

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Edited July 2, 2015 by zuluweta

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Pakistan gets flustered over Facebook's gay rights meme
Those showing support online for the US supreme court’s decision to legalise same-sex unions have faced a barrage of criticism

Jon Boone in Islamabad
Wednesday 1 July 2015 19.09 BST Last modified on Wednesday 1 July 2015 20.42 BST

When Nabeel Khalid joined the 26 million people around the world to superimpose a rainbow flag over his Facebook profile picture, he did not expect a tirade of abuse for showing support for same-sex marriage.

But the meme that swept the social networking site in the wake of last week’s decision by the US supreme court to legalise same-sex unions has not gone down well in Pakistan.

“The reaction was extremely negative with a lot of close friends, colleagues and ex-colleagues just completely unable to handle it,” said Khalid, an IT worker from Lahore. “They could not accept that someone who is married is supporting something they say is away from our culture and our religion.”

The online debate has seen supporters of marriage equality accused of abandoning Islam, as well as claims that bestiality will be next to be legalised, and the widespread circulation of Qur’anic verses condemning homosexuality.

Most observers say social intolerance has grown in Pakistan, a religiously conservative country that has seen radical groups working hard to spread a more militant version of the creed in recent decades.

Surveys find the country’s huge population of young people tends to be conservative: one poll found nearly 40% wanted the country to be run according to Sharia law.

But Marvi Sirmed, an outspoken social activist, says some people are becoming more liberal, particularly on the subject of gay rights.

“It is a very, very pleasant surprise for me that so many people on social media are actually supporting it, because that was certainly not the case just five years ago,” she said.

In 2011 Sirmed was the object of furious denunciations, after she appeared on a television show to defend the US embassy in Islamabad for hosting a “Pride celebration” for Pakistani lesbian, gay and transgender activists.

“It is still extremely difficult to even talk about these issues, but it is getting a little better,” she said.

The US supreme court decision has attracted little coverage in the mainstream media, but considerable scrutiny online.

“The generation growing up with the internet have more access to the outside world,” said Khalid, who lives in Lahore with his wife.

“My virtual life is mostly outside Pakistan, but on Facebook people inside the country can see what I am doing and they don’t necessarily understand.”

Only 32 million of Pakistan’s estimated 200 million people are thought to have access to the internet, although it is growing fast as smart phones become more popular.

Emrys Schoemaker, a researcher from the London School of Economics conducting field research on internet use in Pakistan, said a growing number of poorer people are using Facebook for the first time, as telecom companies offer free access to the site.

“A lot of people don’t know what the flag stands for,” he said. “One day labourer said he felt tricked after liking a friend’s rainbow profile picture and later discovering it was for gay marriage.”

On Wednesday, a call for the liberal-minded Express Tribune newspaper to be shut down was one of the most popular Twitter trends in Pakistan.

The source of the online anger was a blog on the newspaper’s website entitled “My husband is gay – A difficult truth”.

Hamza Ali Abbasi, a film star followed by more than 60,000 people on Facebook, declared himself “disappointed at people in Pakistan celebrating a behaviour that is taboo even in animals” and changed his profile picture to a rainbow flag with a red line across it.

“It’s strange how a law passed in a land far away has generated a debate about a topic which is somewhat irrelevant in Pakistan,” he later mused in a Facebook note.

“Now we know that intolerant fanatics exist who wear western clothes, have utmost exposure, education and are very eloquent in their English skills,” he wrote of the people who criticised his stance.

Homosexuality may be illegal in Pakistan, but can be highly visible at times. A large transgendered community make their living on the streets by begging and prostitution.

In 2009, the supreme court ruled transgendered people had the right to identify themselves as a third gender on their national identification cards and ordered the government to help find them work.

Mohsin Hamid, a Lahore-based author, said that while there was “a lot of homosexuality inside Pakistan, it is not an issue people talk about”.

“In Pakistan there is a kind of societal nervous laughter on the subject of homosexuality,” he said. “It evokes smiles and giggles, but there aren’t many public formats in which to have a serious conversation about it.”

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MS Attorney General Jim Hood: "Federal court has declared MS same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional"

Edited July 2, 2015 by zuluweta

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George Takei takes on Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump (And Wins!)

https://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/07/01/george-takei-takes-clarence-thomas-and-donald-trump-and-wins

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George Takei takes on Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump (And Wins!)

https://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/07/01/george-takei-takes-clarence-thomas-and-donald-trump-and-wins

that's what happens when you irritate the guy who targets the phasors...........

Edited July 2, 2015 by charles!

[Jacque67 7,328]

that's what happens when you irritate the guy who targets the phasors...........

Phasers..

[Ban Hammer 13,528]

Phasers..

don't make me fire a photon torpedo at you.....