Jun 28, 2012 -- 8:20PM, REteach wrote:

WTF is this country coming to?  We free the slaves and even given them the right to vote and use our water fountains.  We let women have the right to vote and even own their own property.  We decide that states can't tax citizens to support a religion.  We decide that fathers have to treat their daughters as least as well as they treat their dogs and cart horses.  We violate God's will by allowing White women to marry black men. 

No wonder some white men are running scared. Their whole world is just slipping away.

I think that Wingoism is becoming navel-gazing.  At the insistence of a dear, wounded soldier the other day, I visited his webpage where he and associated Wingos from the South were saying that the Confederacy was a "great place, because the 'Negros' [their term] had more rights than they have today."  -- Wingoreasoning, I think, is on a long slide into the drink.  Sort of like their beliefs about Iraq becoming a "Christian nation."  Of course:  Wingoism has no experience of racism, nor the experience of military service;  "as ever."  

Jun 28, 2012 -- 6:05PM, TENAC wrote:

Are you kidding? The past two rulings show this court has 3 reliable constitutional constructionist votes. Liberals should fast track any and all left leaning appellate court decisions to the Supremes.

Maybe not, TENAC.   The 14th amendment avenue has already been before the court... and failed.  They would be reversing themselves to uphold the 9th circus.

In the case of Richard John Baker v. Gerald R. Nelson^[1] the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Minnesota law limited marriage to different-sex couples and that this limitation did not violate the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs appealed, and on October 10, 1972, the United States Supreme Court dismissed the appeal "for want of a substantial federal question." Because the case came to the federal Supreme Court through mandatory appellate review (not certiorari), the summary dismissal constituted a decision on the merits and established Baker v. Nelson as a precedent,^[2] though the extent of its precedential effect has been subject to debate.^[3]

Baker v Nelson

Jun 28, 2012 -- 5:40PM, teilhard wrote:

Only if Congress finds a Way to "Tax" It ...

Jun 28, 2012 -- 5:25PM, TENAC wrote:

With this ruling today from the SCOTUS, I think it us safe to say ssm will become the law of the land.

Um, bridal gown sales are taxed. Ditto for tuxedo rentals. Likewise for hall rentals (when they deign to rent to us). Flowers are also taxed. Catering is taxed as well. Similarly, hotel room stays for guests and family/friends/honeymoons are taxed. Restaurant meals are taxed. Airplane tickets to the honeymoon destination are OVER-taxed. Booze at the reception? Taxed.

Heck, I think when you get the license, the state taxes that too.

What part of marriage - gay or str8 - doesn't get taxed?