Supreme Court 2 for 2 today...

[onager]

Links to ongoing DU threads, in case any of you haven't seen them yet...

U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal of Ohio teacher fired over religious materials in class

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014911439

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Gay Marriage

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014911410

The second decision means gay marriage remains legal in 11 states. Giving a whole new meaning to this 1931 Carole Lombard movie...

[Gelliebeans]

1. Good day n/t

[progressoid]

2. And they are playing Lombard on TCM today!

[RussBLib]

3. That Ohio teacher was a frikkin' SCIENCE teacher

How deluded and misguided can you get? Obviously he doesn't understand his own subject worth a shit. No doubt this jerk will end up "teaching" (in this case, polluting young minds) in some lame religious school. The waste.

[theHandpuppet]

4. USCCB already whining

USCCB Chairmen Express Grave Disappointment toward Supreme Court’s Action
October 6, 2014

WASHINGTON—The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, and the chairman of the USCCB’s Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, expressed serious disappointment at the October 6 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to consider current cases that strike down laws upholding marriage as between one man and one woman...

...Bishop Malone and Archbishop Cordileone’s full statement follows:

Upholding the inviolable dignity of every human person is a duty for all, and this duty entails the defense of the unique meaning of marriage as between one man and one woman. The Supreme Court’s decision not to take up any of the cases striking down state laws reflecting the authentic meaning of marriage in five states is extremely disappointing and surprising. All of these state laws were democratically enacted, including most by the direct vote of large majorities within just the last decade. Millions of Americans had looked to the Court with hope that these unjust judicial decisions might be reversed. Instead, as a result of the Supreme Court’s action today, those decisions are allowed to take effect. Furthermore, marriage laws in six other states are now in jeopardy.

Marriage is and can only be between a man and a woman—a unique relationship in which the state has a vested interest. It is the only institution that unites a wife and a husband together for life and unites them to any children that come from their union. This truth presumes and supports the equal dignity of all people, especially of children whose right to a mother and a father deserves the utmost legal protection. The Supreme Court’s action fails to resolve immediately the injustice of marriage redefinition, and therefore should be of grave concern to our entire nation.... MORE at http://www.usccb.org/news/2014/14-163.cfm

[Cartoonist]

5. Do they even read their own statement?

Upholding the inviolable dignity of every human person is a duty for all
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I guess that means they don't consider gays human.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Well, that's pretty much it.

There are numerous sources for these quotes; I'm providing only one.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/04/Pope-Francis-Affirms-Same-Sex-Marriage-Is-Anthropological-Regression

According to the National Catholic Register, Auxiliary Bishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta said in an interview in Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ newspaper, that he had expressed to the pope his concern about proposed legislation in his country to permit same-sex couples the right to adopt children...

...I told him that the promoters [of the bill] quote his words: “If a person is gay and seek the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge?” but they don’t quote his words from 2010 when he was still Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The Pope repeated the phrase of his letter of 2010: “It's an anthropological regression."

In 2010, when Pope Francis was archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio referred to same-sex marriage as an “anti-value and an anthropological regression.”

Similarly, in a conversation with Rabbi Abraham Skorka published in the book On Heaven and Earth, Francis said same-sex marriage is a weakening of the institution of marriage – that has existed for thousands of years – and is “forged according to nature and anthropology.” ....

[AlbertCat]

7. USCCB Chairmen

They mean the USCCBCLMFL&Y Chairman.....










(and the USCCBSPDofM Chairman as well.....!)