I don’t know why, exactly, but my first reaction to seeing that Justice Anthony Kennedy had delivered a constitutional right to gay marriage was to go see how it was going over at Erick Erickson’s Red State. I got what I was expecting, although it would be a mistake to say that I wasn’t disappointed.
We can keep that reaction for the grandchildren. They will marvel that we once walked among these cavemen.
Who said Neanderthals were extinct?
Been a helluva week…TPP, ACA & Marriage equality (so glad I don’t have to call it gay marriage anymore, just marriage works fine for me)
The talking heads will be exploding this weekend. And can we sometime soon see behind the curtain of the TPP since we know no Rep’s have read it.
Yeah, I was just over at redstate enjoying the shadenfreude. Oddly, one of their main idiopundits turns out to be in favor of gay marriage but opposed the decision anyway for some poorly articulated reason.
But this greyhound station dude … civilization coming to an end! Civilization has always been heavily dependent on the contributions of gay people – they were just closeted. Let’s take the history of classical music. The list of gay (or bi) genius composers must be close to 20% of the total. Just off the top of my head: Schubert, Schumann (bi), Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Copland, Bernstein, almost all of the late 20th Century guys – really … almost ALL. And these are only the ones who were so sloppy about being in the closet that we know their sexual proclivities decades or centuries later.
Pick an apsect of civilization and list the gay people who were central to its development, then apply a factor for successful closet cases – and I think you have the answer to why gay rights have had suddenly progressed at such a shocking rate. It turns out that almost everyone, GOP or no, had gay friends and relatives that they didn’t know about and worshiped iconic figures in all fields who they didn’t know were gay. Once everyone started coming out of the closet the irreversible trend that led to this decision went into hyper-drive.
Would that it could be the same for women and ethnic groups … sigh.
And in 30 years, the fact that any of those people were gay won’t even be an asterisk-like fact.
They will be just be considered people who contributed to humanity. And that is what really pissed off conservatives.
I wish I could have written what I just read.
Those redstaters seem to know an awful lot about what goes on in Grayhound station men’s rooms, just sayin’.
Roberts’ dissent was just the old segregationist’s line: “Just wait, you heathens.”
The Confederate Robert E. Lee said the same thing in 1856 writing to his wife.
“…The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy. This influence though slow, is sure. The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years, to Convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist! While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day. Although the Abolitionist must know this, & must See that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means & suasion, & if he means well to the slave, he must not Create angry feelings in the Master; that although he may not approve the mode which it pleases Providence to accomplish its purposes, the result will nevertheless be the same; that the reasons he gives for interference in what he has no Concern, holds good for every kind of interference with our neighbors when we disapprove their Conduct; Still I fear he will persevere in his evil Course. Is it not strange that the descendants of those pilgrim fathers who Crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion, have always proved themselves intolerant of the Spiritual liberty of others?”