I didn’t have any FB post that were hate filled but several people shared opinion pieces that we are all going to hell in a hand basket. The kind of America going down the tubes kind of posts. Thankfully, most of my FB peers are very happy.
Catching up.
Oh, people weren’t sure even at the time. The prop title and language were confusing, where a Yes vote meant no on gay marriage (some thought this was intentional). http://laist.com/2008/09/25/when_talking_prop_8_no_means_yes_co.php The vote was close; if little more than 2% of voters had voted the other way, the ban wouldn’t have passed. And given that it was right around the time public opinion began rapidly changing, it’s just possible that California’s intention was actually to legalize gay marriage. There’s no way to know, of course, but it doesn’t matter now. 
Oh hell no, they’re not! 
They’re vaulting out of those rockers and running down to the courthouse to get married! Those are my very favorite wedding pictures from yesterday – the elderly lifelong partners legally together at last. Bless their hearts!
Perhaps that’s because Mr. Justice Alito was correct in his snarky dissent, when he whined:
It makes you want to cry, doesn’t it? Poor poor homophobes!
Speaking of snarky, this ruling really was remarkable for its unworthy and undignified dissents:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/26/gay-marriage-supreme-court-justices-dissent
Scalia’s dissent is quite entertaining.
It’s just hard to take him seriously as a jurist any more. Off the deep end.
“Scalia’s dissent is quite entertaining.”
Opera material! 
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LasMa, I hope your D put on a ton of sunblock on and is drinking plenty of water! It is so hot and humid here today. One of the reasons I’m not on the city.
There is a Scalia insult generator based on his actual writings at http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2015/06/justice_scalia_insult_generator_how_the_supreme_court_justice_would_mock.html Scroll down for the “hit me” button.
Mine read “One would think that stradmom’s logic is black-robed fortune cookies. Words no longer have meaning.” It is going on my office door, she said, wearing her Notorious RBG t shirt. /nerd
Some people have no chill! =))
“One would think that Niquii’s positions are pretentious and freedom-destroying. Ask the nearest hippie.”
I thought Alito’s dissent was deranged. It is wrong to give people equal rights because people who do not agree with their lifestyle will not feel comfortable saying so publicly.
Imagine a dissent in Brown v BoE. We cannot desegregate the schools because people who think blacks and whites should not mix will have to keep that thought private or else they would be labeled a bigot
“One would think that LasMa’s sentiments are a threat to American democracy. Words no longer have meaning.”
I gotta get me an RBG t-shirt!
ETA – This is actually the piece that I meant to link, re the dissents:
One particularly interesting observation by the author:
So add hypocrisy to the list of Thomas’s sins.
@fireandrain, how do you hide a friend’s posts without unfriending? Clearly I’m not a facebook pro!
@Nrdsb4, If you go to one of their posts on your newsfeed, click on the upper right hand corner of their post and select Unfollow. It will keep you as friends but you won’t get their posts.
Count me in as someone in the bubble, too! Not one negative comment on my FB newsfeed… Everyone I know is very, very happy!
I don’t remember when gay marriage became something I thought about but I’d guess in the early 80’s when the AIDS epidemic started. Definitely, not in the 70’s when I was in high school/college. Maybe because we were caught up in protesting the war and then Watergate One of my closest friends in college was gay but didn’t come out to us until a few years after we graduated. I was totally surprised even though my college boyfriend kept telling me he was. Sadly, he died of Aids about 10 or so years ago after living with it for over 20 years. 
I happen to think Scalia’s writing style in his dissents is unprofessional in the way he loves to insult those who disagree with him. He’d make a great right-wing newspaper columnist or TV commentator (after all, he’s said that he only watches Fox News), but I simply don’t believe his intemperate rhetorical style is appropriate for a judge.
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– thus perpetuating the myth that pastors aren’t already protected under the First Amendment.
Re: facebook- I definitely live in a bubble, and I love my warm, rainbow filled bubble. More profile pictures are rainbow than not and I only saw one post that was against the ruling and it wasn’t nasty but it wasn’t well liked.
I’ve had several “friends” posting that they love the sinner but hate the sin… and that they don’t accept the “lifestyle”. Staying up late and drinking martinis while watching the late show is a lifestyle. Being gay is not.
Rewrite: “I assume that those who cling to the belief that they have homosexual attractions will be able to whisper their affections in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those affections in public, they will risk being labeled as hell-bound sinners, fired, evicted, or hung from fences and left to die.”
{^.^}
Oh my! When worlds collide . . .
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/27/cnn-isis-flag-gay-pride_n_7679298.html
Looking back over the years and thinking of all the people I know who are LGBT from the HS friend who died from AIDS-related illnesses in the early 80s, to a cousin, to coworkers, friends, nephew, it is truly a wonderful week.
I’m a cradle catholic and know of gay priests who lived with the hypocrisy. The marriage equality election in WA State was the end for me as a practicing Catholic - the ugly words did me in. That and my parish allowing the anti petitions to be signed. A family friend, who moved from being a Caholic priest to the Episcopal Church Priesthood, will be married next month. I can’t wait. Love wins.
H and I had different experiences at work yesterday. I work at an art school, and the news was met with, “It’s about time.” H is an engineer at a manufacturing company, and his lab-mates were upset. The comments his coworkers made were ridiculous … “They can’t have kids, and the birth rate is going to plummet” was one gem. They were upset because their religion does not allow gays to marry, so they feel that the decision is forcing their religion to accept gay marriage. H pointed out that the beauty of separation of church and state goes both ways - and that their church is still free to refrain from blessing the civil union if they so choose. Marriage is, after all, a civil institution that can be blessed by the church … but does not have to be.
I only have one FB friend who has posted the dissenting viewpoint. I just ignore it.