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Kim Davis wasn't doing her job. As a public official, she doesn't get to refuse to provide services simply because her personal beliefs say they are wrong.
I agree. Plenty of good Christian conservatives on this very board told me in great detail how wrong I was.
Yeah, that was ridiculously over the top. I mean, what in her life is going to change if two gay people are allowed to marry? Absolutely nothing. I laughed watching that phony display of piety.
Humans have been boinking in nonprocreative manners - and talking about it - as far back as we have written sources. You may want to look at what the old Greeks got up to, for instance.
At least for those of us who are not Christian. It's as outlandish to think that I should be held to your values as it would be if I proposed your marriage was invalid and meaningless because you didn't sign a ketubah.
Marriage predates contemporary religious practices.
Christians are shapeshifters that way. One day they are the little guy being persecuted and picked on by everybody. The next day they claim they are the shining example of the mainstream majority.
If you want some irony, if Oberfell goes down, Utah of all places becomes the gay marriage capital of America. It’s been hashed out at the state level there as legal.
And due to some quirks of the LDS Church and how the wrote the state laws and constitution to effectively allow proxy marriage and marriage by correspondence, the modern interpretation of that set of laws holds up that you can get legally married in Utah by making a Zoom call and having someone registered to officiate marriages in Utah do the festivities online (Zoom marriage is also apparently popular with military folks who wish to quickly marry a romantic partner so being against Zoom marriage is anti-supporting our troops and all)
I wish they would let me marry my cat. Then I could put her on the health insurance plan...
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