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TheRealThangAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:53pm
imagine a world where we didn't have to fight and spend billions just to get basic fairness from Republicans.
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  burningdinnerTheRealThang
  6/25/14 1:00pm
  You mean a form of government where a single entity rules with absolute power? Is that what you want? So long as it is a single entity that you generally agree with.
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  Shut Up!burningdinner
  6/25/14 1:09pm
  No..That's not what he wants. He means, a government that upholds it's constitution as the law of the land. Specifically, the part about all men are created equal which is generally meant to mean all people have the same rights.
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ThePriceisWrongAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:49pm
Didn't they state that this ruling applies to all of the 10th circuit? Or did I miss something? It would be a much broader scope if it was all of the 10th circuit instead of a couple of states.
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  apeshapedmanreturnsThePriceisWrong
  6/25/14 12:53pm
  That is how I read it.
  
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  dsfsdg4r4fThePriceisWrong
  6/25/14 12:55pm
  I'm probably wrong but from what I heard since all the laws are worded differently not automatically BUT if people bring a case about their state's gay marriage bans in the 10th circuit this is the precedent they need and pretty well guarantees a victory.
  
  ETA: Assuming it hold up on appeal.
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Dan SeitzAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:55pm
The Utah case will reach the Supreme Court in a year, by which point it's likely all these bans will have been struck down anyway.

EDIT FOR CLARITY: SCOTUS needs to get off its ass and make marriage equality the law of the land.
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  telepresenceDan Seitz
  6/25/14 1:02pm
  I think the Supreme Court played this pretty smart.
  
  Step 1: Make a ruling in Wondsor that pretty much guarantees state level lawsuit victories (As Scalia complained bitterly).
  
  Step 2: Wait a year and watch a dozen or more state level rulings come down, such that now roughly half the country have either official marriage equality or at least struck down bans on the books.
  
  Step 3: Wait for one of those state-level cases to work it s way back up to the Supreme Court, and with, again, about half the country already there legally anyway, issue a national level ruling backed by the momentum and sense of inevitability even the most hardened anti-equal rights types are feeling.
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  Dan Seitztelepresence
  6/25/14 1:16pm
  I'd be more inclined to believe that's the strategy if they hadn't been ducking this at every possible turn. Perry is a good example; instead of issuing a ruling, they said the case didn't have legal standing, and Windsor was essentially designed to stick the states with the decision.
  
  That said, at the rate this is going, I'm not joking about it being the law of the land before SCOTUS gets to look at it. There are only fourteen states that don't have some sort of lawsuit invalidating their constitution/statute yet. My gut is that SCOTUS is just going to refuse to look at these cases and stick the lower courts with fixing the issue, alas.
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SwipeRightForJesusAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:50pm
Finally, a day where it feels good to live in Indiana.
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  bilbobagodonutsSwipeRightForJesus
  6/25/14 12:54pm
  Have you forgotten about breaded tenderloins.?
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  A House In VirginiaSwipeRightForJesus
  6/25/14 12:56pm
  it's been 100 years; y'all have earned it.
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GearyAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:51pm

GIF

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  cepalgGeary
  6/25/14 12:55pm
  i prefer the full version
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-8kmP…
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jlpubarchAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:47pm
"We'll let this be decided in the courts."

- said that smug guy who runs that loathsome organization for 'protecting' traditional-only marriage thinking that somehow the impartial judges would sometimes side with him and drag the whole ordeal on for years and years.
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sanguinepenguinAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:49pm
If I am counting correctly, that's 24 states that either allow same-sex marriage, or at least do for now pending appeal. AMAZING how quickly this has been happening in the last several years!

ETA: Amazing as in wonderful, great, good, positive.
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  CrankTangosanguinepenguin
  6/25/14 1:11pm
  Only on Gawker would you have to add that disclaimer, so that people who agree with you won't end up misunderstanding one word and crucifying you for it.
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John PetersAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:52pm
I believe the stay is still in effect in Utah, so same-sex couples (aside from those who got hitched before the stay) cannot get married there (yet).
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  violetmoonJohn Peters
  6/25/14 1:00pm
  I think this decision was done higher then the stay was filed with, and because of and the ruling, thus nullifying it and allowing same sex marriages to be filed statewide, likely immediately.
  
  Or so I understand.
  The only step left I believe, is for utah to goto the supreme court, and i don't think that will turn out the way they want.. As given federal laws now being changed, the constitutional writing, and many states now allowing same sex marriages, it's unlikely the supreme court would rule in favor of the states right to ban it, and thus it would be forced on all states to allow legal marriage to a same sex partner across the entire country.
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  John Petersvioletmoon
  6/25/14 1:24pm
  I believe the decision to stay the ruling was made by Justice Sotomayor and the Supreme Court, and so still applies.
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America's WangAllie Jones
6/25/14 12:49pm
It'll be the law of the land within a year-and-a-half. Woo hoo!
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booktartAllie Jones
6/25/14 4:21pm

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