October 06, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
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Congratulations to the many happy couples who now have marriage equality! May the happy couples in the other 20 states soon achieve their rights to marriage equality. You’ve fought the good fight and deserve total success!
1Isn’t this just the bestest way to start a new week? I’m so glad that marriage equality is spreading across the nation – 30 states now! I have difficulty believing that the Supreme Court did this, but I’m loving it – and thanking Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg as I believe her earlier comments led directly to this decision. Yeah to the women on the Supreme Court – and blessings to all who can now legally marry. May the weddings begin!
2I was sooooo hoping that the OKLAHOMO was a video clip.
At least the “supremes” are doing a few things right.
I’m so happy that the majority of our states have marriage equality.
3And in news from what is euphemistically referred to as The Heartland:
The ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri says it plans to file a lawsuit soon asking a federal judge to block the Kansas law prohibiting gay marriage. Thomas Witt, the executive director of Equality Kansas, says “marriage equality is coming to Kansas, and that it may not be this morning, but perhaps another morning very soon.”
On Friday, a Jackson County, Missouri Judge (Jackson County is the 2nd largest county in Missouri and includes Kansas City and Independence), ruled that the state of Missouri must recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who have wed in states and countries where such marriages are legal. Presumably because Judge Youngs has actually read those portions of the Constitution that relate to “full faith and credit.”
Progress, albeit slow progress.
4This is so wonderful. Looking forward to same-sex legality in all 50 states and East Texas.
5More Anniversary Waltzes! Mazeltov!
6Tenacious bible bigots think there is a silver lining in the court’s rejection. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-gay-marriage
7Hurray! The Supreme Court, famous for its Citizens “United” ruling has REFUSED to hear appeals to continu the bank, despite, I am sure the thoughtful, insightful, and fair viewpoint of Scalia.
8Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
9Alaska has a lawsuit going through the courts now to reverse the ban on same sex marriage.
10Glad we’ve got more states okayed– was hoping for all of them, but who knows what this bunch of SCOTUS will do on a big move like that, so this is pretty good for now. Maybe it will allow more doubters to see that the sky doesn’t fall when judges read the 14th Amendment, and Joe and Ray, and Bonnie and Sara, get married.
Sometimes when I get fed up with people I look at a photo I downloaded a couple of years ago: two young women in nice dresses holding a “Just Married” sign, and an older couple with a sign that says, “We love our daughter and her wife”– all smiling with their arms around each other.
11@Dot Owen, if you want an Oklahomo video, try this one by Willie Nelson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4CXlIYjyE
12“(Mary) Cheney and (Heather) Poe were married in Washington D.C., where gay marriage has been legal since 2010.”
13If it’s good enough for Darth Cheney’s daughter, it’s good enough for the rest of the country.
Yay! Equality is coming! Congratulations to all the happy couples in five more states!
14We will finally get there but like every other instance of fighting for civil rights we will have to scratch and claw our way forward every step of the way.
15Day by day.
Step by step.
People are people.
When “pro-lifers” want to use napalm…
When “sanctity of marriage” is broken by it’s promoters…
There has got to be a better way 😉
16A final victory just got a whole lot closer!
17LOVE the graphic! And, of course, I love the news that prompted you to use it.
18Loved Willie Nelson’s song, too!! What a total hoot!!
19What a great day! This is really happening!
20@betty@georgetown:
21Darth Cheney eh?
I really like that one.
Oh, I LIKE Willie Nelson’s gay cowboy song (missed it whenever it showed up first.)
22Then there’s always the Asshat…
“U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called Monday for amending the U.S. Constitution to prevent either the federal government or the U.S. Supreme Court from overturning a state’s ban on same-sex marriage.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2014/10/06/cruz-amend-us-constitution-preserve-marriage-bans/
23Another case when states’ rights need to be trumped by federal
24intervention.
I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade, but I think this is a move by SCOTUS to hide what’s really going on in their cabal (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, etc.) — giving more rights to the corporations and the billionaires that run them — but for now I’ll just be happy for all the people who can finally marry or have their marriages recognized.
25Hal-lelujah! Hal-lelujah!
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hal-layyy-lujahhhhh!!!!!
*George Fredrick Handel*
When I was just a young’un in The Middle of Nowhere, SD, I never imagined that such a great day would ever occur.
26(I know. ALL of SD is The Middle of Nowhere.)