The reason for all this is that the right for men to marry men or women to marry women is only half of the equation—and not even the most important half at that.The other half involves antidiscrimination statutes and regulations, not to mention the discretion of federal, state and even private bureaucracies regarding everything from funding and accreditation to tax exemption.

In short, there is nothing live-and-let-live about the way this movement has operated the past few years, and to pretend otherwise requires a willful blindness. Now, with Obergefell, the full furies have been released.

As Justice Samuel Alito suggested in his dissent, thousands of Americans who never dreamed that the issue would affect them will soon get highly personal lessons in how the legalization of same-sex marriage by judicial fiat threatens their schools, their institutions and even their livelihoods. This is not your father’s culture war.

A century ago, another Supreme Court justice famously wrote that the Constitution “is made for people of fundamentally differing views.” How far we have traveled since.

Those seeking to crush all dissent from the new judicial orthodoxy on marriage will not always win, not least because the right to the free exercise of religion—in bald contrast to Mr. Kennedy’s right to dignity—is in fact in the Constitution. Still, however individual cases may turn out, by foreclosing the option for democratic debate and compromise the Supreme Court has ensured a bitter national harvest.

Welcome to Justice Kennedy’s world. Where upholding the Kennedy definition of liberty—the right to define your own truth—turns out to mean denying that same right to millions of Americans who define marriage and truth in a way different from his.

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mittman said:

Practically every gun rights site has some reference to the decision and an attempt to apply the decision criteria to open carry laws. Good luck with that on this court, but from how many are talking about it, there will probably be a case.

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mittman said:

Practically every gun rights site has some reference to the decision and an attempt to apply the decision criteria to open carry laws. Good luck with that on this court, but from how many are talking about it, there will probably be a case.

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Roy Moore's lawyer to Gov. Bentley: 'Public officials are ministers of God"

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Roy Moore's lawyer to Gov. Bentley: 'Public officials are ministers of God"

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/20...gov_bentl.html#incart_most-commented_politics

Will you become complicit in the takeover by the wicked?" writes Johnson, director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of Courts. The AOC operationally runs Alabama's court system which is headed by Moore.

Johnson begins the letter: "Jesus Christ is Lord of all."
That is followed soon thereafter with: "Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. You cannot serve two masters: you must pick -- God or Satan."
Johnson ends the letter urging disobedience of the court ruling.

I think he should find a new job.!

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seebell said:

Roy Moore's lawyer to Gov. Bentley: 'Public officials are ministers of God"

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/20...gov_bentl.html#incart_most-commented_politics

Will you become complicit in the takeover by the wicked?" writes Johnson, director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of Courts. The AOC operationally runs Alabama's court system which is headed by Moore.

Johnson begins the letter: "Jesus Christ is Lord of all."
That is followed soon thereafter with: "Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. You cannot serve two masters: you must pick -- God or Satan."
Johnson ends the letter urging disobedience of the court ruling.

I think he should find a new job.!

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92tide said:

its a good thing these folks are standing between us and sharia law

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92tide said:

its a good thing these folks are standing between us and sharia law

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Tide1986 said:

Coming soon...the Osteen reeducation camps.

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92tide said:

government mandated teeth whitening for everyone

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dayhiker said:

Win!

Instead of a chicken in every pot, I wonder what the rest of his slogan would involve.

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Tide1986 said:

Don't forget the hair...

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Jon said:

I think he should be fired, but of course that is exactly what he wants so he can scream "see we're being persecuted for our beliefs"

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Bama Reb said:

Bentley doesn't have that power. They are both elected officials, and one can't fire the other.

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92tide said:

i may be wrong, but i don't think that director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of Courts is an elected position.

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Bama Reb said:

Oh. I thought the "I think he should be fired" comment was directed at Judge Roy Moore. I misread the original post. My mistake.

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