Clay Bennett for January 05, 2014

Not by popular vote or demand, but mostly by activist judges.

He looks happy

Consider the source…..it’s not surprising. You’ve posted the most liberal of liberal.

Just visited San Francisco last week and saw many same sex couples holding hands while walking. No kissing or other intimate behavior by hetero or homo sexual couples anywhere except a few photo points above the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge. While I’m familiar with some of the gay pride parades that seem over the top, I wouldn’t want to have hetero parades where people ‘undress’ and cavort the same way either. That’s me, and I can choose to be elsewhere. It just didn’t look like the ‘fall of civilization’ so many seem to think it is.However… can we begin moving away from the social issues that are resolving and repair some bridges, secure some computer infrastructure, and power grids? There is much that needs attention from the gov’t that isn’t divisive and on which it should be easy to form agreement.Respectfully,C.

Maybe the rest of us can vote on pianoguy’s rights. Which ones do we want to take away?

@cjr53

You’ve just exposed your agenda.

“Minnesota: passed by voter referendum, then by legislature, signed by governor”Not quite true. The voter referendum was to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. It was largely seen as a partisan tactic to encourage more “conservative” to vote. Even some Republicans were against it and the referendum failed. The new Democratic majority in the legislature passed the gay marriage bill, which the governor signed. Many saw it as revenge for the voter referendum, but I don’t think it was quite that.I found it quite interesting that some Republicans actually voted for the gay marriage bill, while some Democrats voted against it. Politics and civil rights make for strange bedfellows.

“Bigot. Your easy way out word. It’s not enough you want to force your lifestyle on others, you want to force others to accept it. Do whatever you want in your own, who CARES? But you have no right to make others like it.”I personally don’t give a flying #$%^ if you don’t like it. I just want the same rights as every other citizen. No one is forcing the “gay lifestyle” on you. We’re just working to stop you from forcing your anti gay beliefs on us. You’re still welcome to believe that homosexuality is a sin that will cause me to burn in Hell for all eternity. It’s just that you’re not welcome to tell me I can’t have the same rights as you.

It’ll happen in Tennessee, Tigger. Same as inter-racial marriage and integrated schools. Companies will leave, business will leave, and It will become economically as well as morally unsupportable to retain state-sanctioned bigotry in the face of the modern world.

“land of the free, home of the brave” . . . well if we get rid of the xenophobes, homophobes, and religious fanatic hypocrites (no, NOT the TRULY “religious” who read the Constitution and actually live their faiths within it.) demanding a sectarian state attached to the most radical interpretations of “Christians only” theology.

To you and other haters. If you JUST wanted quiet equality, then what was the point of a gay wedding at the Rose Parade? Why so much attention every time a celebrity no one’s ever heard of comes out. You don’t see big attention by seeing anyone making headlines by announcing they’re straight.

It’s not a matter of making anyone like it. In none of the states does the law say you have to like it. It only says that two consenting adults, regardless of gender, have the right to legally marry. That forces nothing on anyone. However, laws that ban same sex marriage DO force your values on others. National polls – as in the entire nation – consistently show that the majority of the population has no problem with same sex marriage. Politicians are just afraid of the loud and threatening conservative minority.

Hmm, just interesting how those who think people should simply have the right to love each other, are called “haters” by the haters. Which, all the strip IS saying is “love who you want” is merely “freedom”.

I have yet to see a gay couple marry and advertise it anymore than a non gay couple advertises their marriage. Want the media to stop writing about it then legalize it nationwide.

So NOW you don’t want state’s rights?

If a bakery refused to serve me I would sue. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicitly prohibits restaurants from refusing service to patrons on the basis of race, color, religion, or natural origin. As a good capitalist I would have my lawyer on the line before I got to my car.

I usually consider myself white but for the right price I can be Latino, Black, Middle Eastern, Cheque or whatever they are not serving that day. Welcome to the home of the free. I am an engineer but I can be a professional Sue-er if it pays off my house.

I don’t think you’re allowed to accuse advocates of gay marriage of ‘forcing’ their choices on other people unless they want to make YOU marry someone of your own gender.

Otherwise, you’re being ridiculous.

"gay and straight have the same legal right to marry a person of the opposite gender…. not happy with that??If straight and gay couples both had the same legal right to only marry a person of the same gender, would they be happy with that?

“what if you are obese… or diabetic… looking to poison the wedding party… these are not covered by race, color, religion, & natural origin … where does the merchant draw the line?”There’s a difference between “we don’t have the knowledge or ability to make a cake to suit your dietary needs” and “we don’t serve your kind, you sick pervert!” What if that bakery refused to serve someone because that person was a Christian? Would you support the bakery then? Where do you draw the line?