Yeah, I just love the obsession about gays not being able to ‘make kids’ and how that justifies them not being able to get married, it is more like religious obsession with the birth canal or something…what is even worse is the pro life nitwits are always talking about adoption as an answer, ever dawn on them that gay couples might be a great supply of loving adoptive parents (which gay and lesbian couples often are). They obsess about a child being the biological product of the man and woman in a marriage, but how many straight couples adopt, or do things like surrogate mothering , sperm and or egg donors? I guess the numb nuts never figured out that when it comes to children, what matters a lot more than biology is having loving parents.
Clarence Thomas is absolutely a gigantic hypocrite, he is married to a white woman in virginia, the state who was the defendant in the Loving decision. So what did he base his dissent on? That no one by banning same sex marriage was depriving gays of their dignity or their liberty, that they could travel anywhere they wanted, live where they wanted, that no one was depriving them of their liberty by denying them a benefit (more on that a bit). Worse, he then went on to say get this, that legalized slavery did not take away the dignity or the humanity of the slaves…wth? The law reduced slaves to being property, and as such was taking away their fundamental humanity and the right to be treated as a person, not a thing…does he really think that? Not to mention that the kind of dignity he is talking about is self dignity, there is also something else, societal dignity, where people deserve the right to be treated with dignity that should be afforded to every other human being. When he then goes on to say Loving was a different story because race is not the same thing as being gay, he really goes off the rails. My response to him would be if all marriage was is a simple benefit, then how about tomorrow we overturn Loving and invalidate his marriage? Would his response be “gee, I just lost a tax benefit” or would he feel like someone had just kicked him in the you know what’s, told him that his relationship with his wife was bogus?
All 4 dissents are quite honestly some of the most shameful legal writing I have read, it isn’t legal writing, it is a school yard war of words…Alito is taunting Kennedy, saying “nah nah your old man was an idiot”, Roberts is "girls are icky, cause if you kiss a girl then you get cooties’, Alito dissent is “you suck, you told the teacher I called you a nerd, and now I have to serve detention, it isn’t fair that I can’t call you names” and Thomas is basically “so what I stole your lunch money, you didn’t need it anyway”. I hear a lot of conservatives ask why the term among many people has come to mean those who have made a political position out of being stupid and mean (and before anyone jumps on me I am saying that, I am not, there are conservative thinkers I respect though I disagree with them, and I would not lump them in with the idiot right), and all I can say is the 4 dissents are proof positive why people believe that, rewrite the dissents to maybe a 6th grade level of speech, and it would fit right in on talk radio.
