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Archae

(46,314 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 04:01 PM Oct 2014

Religious Right reacts to SC gay marriage ruling...

Predictably, they are throwing a HUGE tantrum.



The Religious Right Reacts To SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision: 'Unconscionable, Unconstitutional, And Un-American'

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 10/6/2014 3:38 pm

Earlier today, the Supreme Court refused to hear appeals from several states challenging court decisions striking down gay marriage bans, resulting in such marriages now being legal in several more states. To say that anti-gay Religious Right groups are furious with the Supreme Court would be a massive understatement and nobody was more livid about it than the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, who spent two segments of his radio program today blasting the Supreme Court for having now issued the "de facto Roe vs. Wade of sodomy-based marriage" by "imposing on every state in the union marriage that is based on the infamous crime against nature." "It unconscionable, unconstitutional, and un-American," Fischer fumed:

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-reacts-scotus-gay-marriage-decision-unconscionable-unconstitutional-and-un-a#sthash.ZyLXGOur.dpuf

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RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
2. Yep, the hypocrites have spoken. I always find it more than a little strange, those
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 04:30 PM
Oct 2014

that make a living tearing apart others sexual preferences and lives. They doth protest too much, something more than a little weird is going on inside their heads IMO! And often we see that verified!

tanyev

(42,541 posts)
3. Unconstitutional, eh?
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 04:57 PM
Oct 2014

If only there were a governmental body designated to determine that who could weigh in on this......

JHB

(37,158 posts)
5. It'd be a real shame if this means Tony, Clarence, and Sam get fewer invites...
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:29 PM
Oct 2014

...to conservative shindigs over this.

Yup, a real shame.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)
6. sodomy-based marriages, huh?
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:38 PM
Oct 2014

Wow I thought that was just something tried after a few too many drinks (by all parties) on a weekend night...who KNEW an entire MARRIAGE could be based on it, that's just genius why didn't I think of that..

Oh yeah, because it's one of the dumbest thoughts any human has ever had, that's why.
Sodomy-based marriage ...what an asshole that guy is..and yes I saw what I did there, too.

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