(I’m gone for months and come back to see people still getting baited by Zatalcon’s possibly real stupidity. Good to know some things never change.)
I’m…not sure how I feel about this, to be honest. It’s “good”, but:
On the one hand, this is “good” even though this shouldn’t have even come for debate in first place in the sense that it’s a basic decency issue about simple equal rights on a legal level. If people weren’t so (literally) enamored of marriage as a romantic and/or religious institution rather than the purely legal one that it is, they might be able to see. Then again, this is humanity we’re talking about. We’ve never been good about doing the decent thing, especially for minorities, unless we’re basically forced to or guilted into it.
On the other hand, while this passing is “good” and gets rid of some bullshit on the legal level, it’s probably going to end up like Roe v. Wade in that it just ends up polarizing people (further) rather than letting things “evolve” naturally–not that a lot of the South even believes in evolution, but you know what I mean. Sure, some people would have doubtless been horribly fucked over in the meantime, but what else is new? now this is going only to strengthen the resolve of hardliners who believe that America is “falling apart” and that “marriage is being threatened” and stuff like that. As such, I cynically fully expect someone to (at least try to) attack one of the pride events this weekend because of it among other increases in gay-bashing and anti-gay stuff, like all that evangelist aid to Uganda.
So…yeah, I guess is “good” overall, but between there being evidence in European countries that legalizing “gay marriage” doesn’t stop non-heterosexuals from being treated like second class citizens in a lot cases, which isn’t stopping (here) any time soon either way, and the result of this ruling being almost inevitable even without the Supreme Court’s “help”–nice to have more proof that Scalia and Thomas are idiots, though–on the matter…yeah. I’m not really sure how much this actually changes other than (hilariously) pissing some people off and, ironically, making it easier for people to get divorced (if they move out of state).
Shrug. Go “marriage equality” and “historical moment”, I guess.
(P.S. What the fuck kind of surname is “Obergefell” anyway? Regardless, in your face, Hodges.)
Unfortunately, he probably won’t go through with this once he realizes that setting himself alight will make him too Buddhist to get into Heaven.
realizes almost no one will get that reference
Oh, who am I kidding? He’ll unfortunately forego doing it since he’s too much of a cowardly, hypocritical idiot in every other regard as it is. So what’s being a cowardly, hypocritical idiot in one more way really while continuing to appeal to his own egotism?
(Note: I’m not saying being “uncomfortable” with “gay marriage” automatically makes you cowardly or hypocritical or idiotic, much less bigoted. This even though I would obviously encourage people to logically examine why they are made uncomfortable by it if they bring up any reason that isn’t solely based in religion or essentially saying some vague stuff about “family” that doesn’t also often apply to heterosexuals.)