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Posted at 10:24am on May 16, 2008 How Astute of You to Notice that, California Supreme Court

Value Judgments are for Voters, Hmmkay?

By Leon H Wolf

I spent a little time last night reading the California Supreme Court's opinion (.pdf) in the gay marriage case. To be honest, I didn't make it all the way through (it's quite lengthy - 172 pages, in fact), primarily because I found the money shot relatively early on. You see, one of the arguments raised by the State was, "Look, Supreme Court, the way the law is set up here in California, gay couples already get all the civil benefits of marriage. Literally the only thing they are denied is the right to use the word 'married.' Therefore, there's absolutely no potential harm that comes to gay people based on the way the law is set up." This argument elicited the following response from the court:

Second, retaining the traditional definition of marriage and affording same-sex couples only a separate and differently named family relationship will, as a realistic matter, impose appreciable harm on same-sex couples and their children, because denying such couples access to the familiar and highly favored designation of marriage is likely to cast doubt on whether the official family relationship of same-sex couples enjoys dignity equal to that of opposite-sex couples. Third, because of the widespread disparagement that gay individuals historically have faced, it is all the more probable that excluding same-sex couples from the legal institution of marriage is likely to be viewed as reflecting an official view that their committed relationships are of lesser stature than the comparable relationships of opposite-sex couples.

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Posted at 4:34pm on May 15, 2008 So I'm going to marry my brother. Deal with it!

By bluechiplaw

Okay, in light of the California Supreme Court's ruling today, I think I'm going to do move to California and marry my brother. Makes perfect sense, really---Just think about it.

First, I love my brother. It's in a completely non-gross kind of way, but I still love him. We've been related all his life (I'm older), and we've basically been buddies now for over 22 years.

Second, I know his family REALLY well, and we get along quite nicely. In fact, his parents have been giving me Christmas presents since before he was born. They'll think our relationship is a bit weird, but they'll understand why we're doing it.

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Posted at 1:18pm on May 15, 2008 California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Robert A. Hahn

The California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage Thursday, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

CBS 5

UPDATE (Dan McLaughlin): Howard Bashman has the breakdown of the 4-3 decision, which apparently rests on state constitutional grounds and thus can't be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, here along with links to the 172-page opinion.

Comments are open.

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Posted at 7:39pm on May 14, 2008 Schaeffer Progeny Kneels At The Feet Of Afrosupremacist Pastor

By FMeekins

Charged with relaying the truth of God as revealed through Holy Scripture and rationally applied to more contemporary specific situations through theology, ministers face the unique challenge of uplifting those aspects of culture and society that are in accord with what the Lord intended for mankind while admonishing or criticizing those aspects of human institutions and individual behavior that fall short. As fallen beings themselves stained by the same sin nature plaguing each and every one of us, it can be easy for those aspiring for recognition as mouthpieces of the divine to substitute their own agendas and predilections as God’s own clearly defined will. That is why it is imperative for believers making up these respective congregations --- whether they be sitting in a traditional pew, listening over the airwaves, or even reading a book --- to do their duty not only as Bereans but also as the sons of Issachar by examining the ideas espoused, the implications of these ideas upon the future, and the underlying worldview of the individual expositing them.

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Posted at 3:22pm on May 14, 2008 What will the atheists say now!

By Jaded

When last I left off on our hapless and potential Presidential candidate Barack Obama he was making an idiot of himself...well he is not doing that here but..

http://race42008.com/2008/05/12/barack-obamas-pitch-in-kentucky/

It appears that Obama is appealing for that Evangelical/Christian vote in a big way...now Huckabee only had a "possible" cross in his ad and the leftist/marxist/atheists went BANANAS...but our forlorn Christian Obama is putting it all out there for that largest of bases of either party Christians...

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Posted at 2:30pm on May 14, 2008 Stupid is as stupid does (The Obama idiot Chronicles)

By Jaded

It appears our fair candidate cannot quite grasp the concept of __________ your choice ;-)

This pretend President made yet another gaffe today when he said the following about translators in Iraq...

"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said.

and ABC's take on that....

"Obama posited -- incorrectly -- that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic."

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Posted at 11:05pm on May 11, 2008 America chooses their favorite Mom!

By Jaded

I have had the pleasure of the meeting the woman that has been picked as America's favorite Mom....military Mom Patti Patton-Bader...she is a testiment to the love and admiration that Americans feel towards military personnel.

Patti's Soldiers Angels is a godsend to men and women serving in the United States Military who may not have someone to send them packages and cards to lighten their day....to this Mom she is indeed the personification of a real American Mom and hero....God Bless her and the men and women who keep us safe.

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Posted at 1:31pm on May 9, 2008 Notes on the Theory of Crypto-Bigotry

By TomlinsonDouthat

1.) By crypto-bigotry, I mean the phenomenon of people holding bigoted views against certain groups, but trying to keep these views secret from all but trusted, like-minded intimates, due to the various pressures against bigotry in modern society. By the theory of crypto-bigotry, I mean the belief that this phenomenon is common today and that this affects the workings of modern society in various, significant ways. One of the effects most commonly alleged is that politicians play to the crypto-bigotry of their constituents by uttering "code words," sending hidden messages, and supporting policies designed to harm the groups targeted by crypto-bigotry, but the effects of crypto-bigotry are also alleged to be seen in the media and elsewhere.

The belief I refer to here as the theory of crypto-bigotry is rarely expressed explicitly or explored systematically, but it clearly serves as an implicit premise to much political discourse today.

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Posted at 1:04am on May 9, 2008 All The Cool Kids Are Doing It . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

So let me be the latest to link to this P.J. O'Rourke commencement-speech-you-will-never-actually-hear-given-at-a-college. It's utterly fantastic. I may not agree with all of it, but I agree with lots of it and find the following especially worth quoting:

Here we are living in the world's most prosperous country, surrounded by all the comforts, conveniences and security that money can provide. Yet no American political, intellectual or cultural leader ever says to young people, "Go out and make a bunch of money." Instead, they tell you that money can't buy happiness. Maybe, but money can rent it.

There's nothing the matter with honest moneymaking. Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. In a free society, with the rule of law and property rights, no one loses when someone else gets rich.

The man's got a point.

Posted at 11:07pm on May 6, 2008 The Supremes spoke and Georgia got down to business.

By Jaded

The Roberts Court has been quite good at allowing state laws to prevail in a majority of their recent opinions. I am grateful for that conservatism in the Court. I believe that when the people speak and a state legislature reacts to the demands of the citizens that a group such as the ACLU http://www.aclu.org/ coming in and trying to usurp the will of the people should be shot down by the Supreme Court every time.

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Posted at 6:10pm on May 6, 2008 Mary Mitchell's Pre Emptive New Race Card

By mike volpe

In Mary Mitchell's new column, she pre emptively plays a new race card. If you are in Indiana or North Carolina and you vote for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, then it is strictly because you are a racist. Here is how she begins to frame the issue.

Looks like Clinton has gotten a lift from the fear-mongering, and is now slightly ahead of Obama in Indiana, and has narrowed his double-digit lead in North Carolina.

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Posted at 11:19am on May 6, 2008 Mary Mitchell and Louis Farrakhan

By mike volpe

As I have pointed out earlier, Mary Mitchell has been a steadfast supporter of Barack Obama. I haven't read every article that Mitchell wrote in relation to Obama, however everytime her support is mentioned toward him it is men, it is mentioned in the context of race.

At a time when African Americans are on the cusp of watching a barrier come crashing down,

As such, the only times I have seen her attack Obama is in response to his own attacks on African American figures. She made several attacks of Obama vis a vis Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and then there is this defense of Louis Farrakhan

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Posted at 1:12am on May 6, 2008 The Beauty of Unconditional Love

By BlackRepub

I hadn't realized that I haven't blogged in an insanely long time until people that I know started to publicly wonder whether I had taken a leave of absence from politics until after November. Well the truth is, I have been busy lately with something much much bigger than the political scene, as bleak as it looks. In just 3 weeks now, I'm going to be going from the role of boyfriend to husband, and officially being one with my lovely wife, and hopefully having ourselves a baby girl soon to go along with our son. I have been exhausted with marriage and planning, and moving up to our new apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan that I haven' really had time to look into presidential politics. But what I have been able to do that is actually related to politics is to ponder this idea of unconditional love.

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Posted at 7:57am on May 5, 2008 HOLY COW! Another Case Of Nanny State Syndrome!

By Roger Allan

Some of us in this world enjoy milk. But we don't necessarily like the milk that you buy in the store. We like the milk that comes right out of the cow BEFORE it goes to a dairy to be "processed". It's called "raw" milk and up here where I live it's pretty easy to get with all the dairy farms we have. Many can and do argue that raw milk is much better for you. There is actually evidence mounting that processed milk causes clogged arteries.

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