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DETROIT (AP) — A judge signaled Monday that a trial is possible to determine whether Michigan’s ban on gay marriage is constitutional, nearly nine years after voters approved it by a wide margin.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by nurses Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer, who are challenging a law that bars them from adopting each other’s children as well as a 2004 constitutional amendment that defines marriage only as between a man and a woman.
Friedman said the Detroit-area women, along with state of Michigan attorneys who are defending the laws, probably found something to like last week in a major U.S. Supreme Court decision, which could influence the outcome of the case.[…]
The Michigan attorney general’s office said it was disappointed that Friedman didn’t dismiss the lawsuit but added: “We look forward to aggressively defending Michigan’s constitution.”
At least Michigan’s attorney general still believes he has a fighting chance and will fight. Unlike crypto-fascists Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris.
darleen you be 10ther
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am10.html?ModPagespeed=noscript
Crypto?
gay marriage bans don’t really belong in constitutions that’s not really what constitutions are for I don’t think
Sounds like weak infantile “feel good” bullshit is the new legal paradigm.
griefer
defining marriage as between 2 consenting, single adults of opposite sex and outside a certain degree of consanguinity is no more a “gay marriage ban” as a “bigamy ban” a “polygamy ban” a “brother/sister marriage” ban or a “child/adult marriage” ban
It is setting a standard for “marriage” just like the Constitution sets a standard for running for President (natural born citizen over 35)
ZOMG! How unfair!!! It’s a foreign-born, ageist President ban!!
it’s silly to turn a constitution into a catalog of petty prejudices I think
muy reductionarioso
It’s silly to pass that shit off as a thought.
you should be more respectful Mr. p
who warned you guys you were gonna lose lose lose the whole gay marriage culture war thingy?
I did! It was me! And I did it cause of I care about you and I want to help you make Good Decisions. But what did you and your compatriots do? You spurned my sagacious advice!
I forgive you.
But that said it’s time for you guys to have a much less whiny plan b than the one you’ve concocted.
No I should be LESS respectful because babble is just babble. It is not worth respect. It deserves contempt and dismissal. And this hasn’t been a culture war issue so much as a press leaning on the weak ass courts issue. It has been anti democratic. I think your advice is stupid shit and absolutely worthless. You are a trolly little troll what trolls and not a damned thing more.
I’m not going to take offense at that mostly cause it’s real important you get that out of your system by late 2015 or so
but the sooner the better
You go ahead and take whatever you want lightweight. Whatevs.
the state flower of texas is the bluebonnet Mr. pal but at the time this was decidered all the guys in the legislature wanted to pick a cactus but what happened is that they decided to be gracious
they decided to be gracious and pick their battles and they deferred to the ladies and so hence and therefore and god bless america I say
Blah blah blah de blah blah blah blah.
i want a set of wine stems with blue bonnets on them but really nice ones not souvenir ones can you hook a brotha up?
*bluebonnets* I mean… it’s one word like pragmacticality
The further left the GOP has gone in the hopes of it becoming the ‘safe new center’ the LESS voter and monetary support it has been able to scrap together. The GOP’s record of listening to you has been one of failure and decline and folly. Your advice has gotten no one elected. It has not increased GOP influence. It has merely alienated the base. It has not attracted the moderates who are at best a bunch of fickle joiners and at worst leftist posers trying to scam themselves into appearing intellectually more than the obsequious partisan marionettes they so obviously are.
It’s quite funny to hear you condemn McCain’s daughter one minute and then sound just like her the next.
I have no reason to consort with rebranders.
I’m not a GOP strategist mr. p and I think this whole “GOP” thing is hopelessly passe like pinkberry
but I know if your base can’t deliver what you need to do is get a new base
there is a menu placed in front of you and good news
you can have anything you want as long as you pick a majority
but that is the one thing Team R cannot willnot do
at the root of it it’s cause of they define themselves by who they hate, instead of what they love (purportedly freedom) (lol)
but of course it’s not really my problem anymore
like most americans my problem is i need to figure out how to navigate the fascist failshit landscape of post-america america
like most americans my problem is i need to figure out how to navigate the fascist failshit landscape of post-america america
– Twisting yourself into a “head into asshole” pretzel to appease your fabulouse friends who pretend they’re not envious of real marraige, and therefore certainly not out to distroy the sanctimony of a church based social contract as old as man when anyone with a working brain can plainly see that is exactly their intent, is probably not a good way to start SplodeyRat.
– See SplodeyRat, the jig was up the moment they said that civil unions were not “good enough”. That’s when their true objectives became clear to everyone.
– Worse yet, its pitiful to see your comments denying when the core Rainbow leadership has been caught red handed detailing their “destruction tactics”. But hey, keep on trucking yellowRodent.
too tired for to do any serious trucking I’d like to stay and taste my first champagne and et cetera
– No problem, go ahead and chill. Later on when it turns out there are some really good reasons for why societies tend to discriminate against certain sorts of destructive behavior you can always say nobody explained it to you properly, or something.
“but I know if your base can’t deliver what you need to do is get a new base”
The base is walking off due to the party not representing its interests. The “new base” doesn’t exist. It’s a fucking delusion. Thus influence is more or less just gone. The left doesn’t like you even when you suck up to them. The middle is stupid, nuts, whimsical, easily frightened, and too tiny to make up for the base who walked off anyway. The GOP lost because it listened to silly naive people like you and people like you really didn’t deliver anything and people like me said fuck it and left.
“at the root of it it’s cause of they define themselves by who they hate, instead of what they love (purportedly freedom) (lol) ”
“Hate” in this context is just stupid dramatic leftist asshole talk for “opposition to the agenda”. This kind of hyperbole is why your new GOP is getting smaller by the minute and the ex-GOP doesn’t bother listen to your nonsense with a half serious ear.
– And later on when that shit hits the fan, all of the SplodeyRats, the weakest of the weak who wanted so to please, rather than think it through, who go with pleasing instead of making the hard decisions because playing at being a child forever is so much more fun than being a grownup, well they can just slip right back into their next “position of support”, because that is who they are and what they do.
“Feels good” cafeteria style legal philosophy leads to nothing but corruption and absurdity where good is determined by fads and evil by grudges and crackpot theories about collective guilt and such.
– Allah have Mursi……Judging from the size of today’s protest he’s going to need a plan B.
But Jon Rice, 42, of Longmont, Colo., decided to run a mile in a heat-absorbing black Darth Vader costume, complete with black plastic helmet. He was hoping to record the “hottest verified run” for Guinness World Records. Rice ran on the center white line of Highway 190 in the heart of Death Valley so his shoes wouldn’t melt on the asphalt.
He described the experience as “abject pain. The first hundred yards are fine. The second hundred yards are all about, ‘Gosh, what the heck was I thinking?’ ” Finishing, he said, took “grim determination.”
– And then they wonder why people call Californicate La-La Land.
– The Empire strikes back.
a constitution into a catalog of petty prejudices
No, griefer, dear, it is called standards.
But I guess if you don’t have any, “standards” would really look unfair. Like, really, why should kids get grades in school? Or that engineers/nurses/doctors have to pass tests to practice what they LOVE?
Geez, think of how easy life would be if we just get rid of all our silly
standardsbigotry and ran everything based on what we feel LOVE!1! about!“If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists” by Woody Allen(1978)
Dear Theo
Will life never treat me decently? I am wracked by despair! My head is pounding. Mrs Sol Schwimmer is suing me because I made her bridge as I felt it and not to fit her ridiculous mouth. That’s right! I can’t work to order like a common tradesman. I decided her bridge should be enormous and billowing and wild, explosive teeth flaring up in every direction like fire! Now she is upset becuase it won’t fit in her mouth! She is so bourgeois and stupid, I want to smash her. I tried forcing the false plate in but it sticks out like a star burst chandelier. Still, I find it beautiful. She claims she can’t chew! What do I care whether she can chew or not! Theo, I can’t go on like this much longer! I asked Cezanne if he would share an office with me but he is old and infirm and unable to hold the instruments and they must be tied to his wrists but then he lacks accuracy and once inside a mouth, he knocks out more teeth than he saves. What to do?
Vincent
Dear Theo
I took some dental X-rays this week that I thought were good. Degas saw them and was critical. He said the composition was bad. All the cavities were bunched in the lower left corner. I explained to him that that’s how Mrs Stotkin’s mouth looks, but he wouldn’t listen. He said he hated the frames and mahogany was too heavy. When he left, I tore them to shreds! As if that was not enough, I attempted some root-canal work on Mrs Wilma Zardis, but half-way through I became despondent. I realised suddenly that root-canal work is not what I want to do! I grew flushed and dizzy. I ran from the office into the air where I could breathe! I blacked out for several days and woke up at the seashore. When I returned, she was still in the chair. I completed her mouth out of obligation but I couldn’t bring myself to sign it.
Vincent
Dear Theo
Once again I am in need of funds. I know what a burden I must be to you, but who can I turn to? I need money for materials! I am working almost exclusively with dental floss now, improvising as I go along, and the results are exciting. God! I have not even a penny left for Novocaine! Today I pulled a tooth and had to anesthetize the patient by reading him some Dreiser. Help.
Vincent
Dear Theo
Have decided to share office with Gauguin. He is a fine dentist who specialises in bridgework, and he seems to like me. He was very complimentary about my work on Mr Jay Greenglass. If you recall, I filled his lower seven, then despised the filling and tried to remove it. Greenglass was adamant and we went to court. There was a legal question of ownership, and on my lawyer’s advice, I cleverly sued for the whole tooth and settled for the filling. Well, someone saw it lying in the corner of my office and he wants to put it in a show! They are already talking about a retrospective!
Vincent
Dear Theo
I think it is a mistake to share offices with Gauguin. He is a disturbed man. He drinks Lavoris in large quantities. When I accused him, he flew into a rage and pulled my D.D.S off the wall. In a calmer moment, I convinced him to try filling teeth outdoors and we worked in a meadow surrounded by greens and gold. He put caps on a Miss Angela Tonnato and I gave a temporary filling to Mr Louis Kaufman. There we were, working together in the open air! Rows of blinding white teeth in the sunlight! Then a wind came up and blew Mr Kaufman’s toupee into the bushes. He darted for it and knocked Gauguin’s instruments to the ground. Gauguin blamed me and tried to strike out but pushed Mr Kaufman by mistake, causing him to sit down on the high speed drill. Mr Kaufman rocketed past me on a fly, taking Miss Tonnato with him. The upshot, Theo, is that Rifkin, Rifkin, Rifkin and Meltzer have attached my earnings. Send whatever you can.
Vincent
Dear Theo
Toulouse-Lautrec is the saddest man in the world. He longs more than anything to be a great dentist, and he has real talent, but he’s too short to reach his patients’ mouths and too proud to stand on anything. Arms over his head, he gropes around their lips blindly, and yesterday, instead of putting caps on Mrs Fitelson’s teeth, he capped her chin. Meanwhile, my old friend Monet refuses to work on anything but very, very large mouths and Seurat, who is quite moody, has developed a method of cleaning one tooth at a time until he builds up what he calls ‘a full, fresh mouth’. It has an architectural solidity to it, but is it dental work?
Vincent
Dear Theo
I am in love. Claire Memling came in last week for an oral prophylaxis. (I had sent her a postcard telling her it had been six months since her last cleaning even though it had been only four days.) Theo, she drives me mad! Wild with desire! Her bite! I’ve never seen such a bite! Her teeth come together perfectly! Not like Mrs Itkin’s, whose lower teeth are forward of her uppers and inch, giving her an underbite that resembles that of a werewolf! No! Claire’s teeth close and meet! When this happens you know there is a God! And yet she’s not too perfect. Not so flawless as to be uninteresting. She has a space between her lower nine and eleven. Ten was lost during her adolescense. Suddenly and without warning it developed a cavity. It was removed rather easily (actually it fell out while she was talking) and never replaced. ‘Nothing could replace lower ten’ she told me. ‘It was more than a tooth, it had been my life to that point.’ The tooth was rarely discussed as she got older and I think she was only willing to speak of it to me because she trusts me. Oh, Theo, I love her. I was looking down into her mouth today and I was like a nervous young dental student again, dropping swabs and mirrors in there. Later I had my arms around her, showing her the proper way to brush. The sweet little fool was used to holding the brush still and moving her head side to side. Next Thursday I will give her gas and ask her to marry me.
Vincent
Dear Theo
Gauguin and I had another fight and he has left for Tahiti! He was in the midst of an extraction when I disturbed him. He had his knee on Mr Nat Feldman’s chest with the pliers around the man’s upper right molar. There was the usual struggle and I had the misfortune to enter and ask Gauguin if he had seen my felt hat. Distracted, Gauguin lost his grip on the tooth and Feldman took advantage of the lapse to bolt from the chair and race out of the office. Gauguin flew into a frenzy. He held my head under the Xray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison. Now I am lonely.
Vincent
Dear Theo
All is lost! Today being the day I planned to ask Claire to marry me, I was a bit tense. She was magnificent in her white organdy dress, straw hat, and receeding gums. As she sat in the chair, the draining hook in her mouth, my heart thundered. I tried to be romantic. I lowered the lights and tried to move the conversation to gay topics. We both took a little gas. When the moment seemed correct, I looked her directly in the eye and said, ‘Please rinse’. And she laughed! Yes, Theo! She laughed at me and then grew angry! ‘do you think I could rinse for a man like you!? What a joke!’ I said, ‘Please, you don’t understand.’ She said, ‘I understand quite well! I could never rinse with anyone but a licensed orthodontist! Why, the thought I would rinse here! Get away from me!’ And with that she ran out weeping. Theo! I want to die! I see my face in the mirror and I want to smash it! Smash it! Hope you are well.
Vincent
Dear Theo
Yes, it’s true. The ear on sale at Fleishman Brothers Novelty Shop is mine. I guess it was a foolish thing to do but I wanted to send Claire a birthday present last Sunday and every place was closed. Oh, Well. Sometimes I wish I had listened to father and become a great painter. It’s not exciting but the life is regular.
Staunchyghoul obviously doesn’t have the slightest notion what state constitutions are for in a federal union.
Hollywood is a tool to achieve leftist ends too. Surprised? No? Oh well.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2013/07/01/usual-suspects-white-house-down-villains-racist-right-wing-militarists
http://radio.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-119078/ten-states-already-have-abortion-restrictions-11449123/
“They have been denounced as ‘anti woman’ and ‘damaging to women’s health, but ten states currently have on their books the abortion restrictions which are being proposed in Texas, and all of them tell 1200 WOAI news that there has been no adverse impacts to women’s health reported. “
you can have anything you want as long as you pick a majority
but that is the one thing Team R cannot willnot do
Because importing an underclass who will vote for the Demunists is such a great new base, isn’t it?
Never mind the gay “marriage” issue, he can’t even comprehend this even more basic issue fact.
Staunchyghoul has the best interests of fetuses and conservatives at heart in exactly the same way.
who said anything about amnesty
that’s lifeydoodle fuckstain marco rubio’s baby and lifeydoodle cowardwhore McCain’s baby Mr. Curmudgeon
i don’t think we should change immigration laws without an honest open debate whereby the principles of each party with respect to immigrations are laid out clearly for so the votermonkeys can evaluate them
…and vote, as you would, without recourse to fact or reason.
Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Nor are constitutions for an activist unaccountable judiciary to impose its preferred policies on the citizens. And so long as constitutions are so used, bans will belong.
… and then a judge can tell us what we are going to do.
Understand that Pikachu has adopted the Jon Stewart/Steven Colbert method of pretending at seriousness until the other side gets serious adn the arguments get hard at which point it’s all, “hey, I’m just kidding.”
Oh and as Professor Reynolds says, the term social justice merely means “what I want.”
– I’m pretty clear on the laws covering murder, regardless of the victims age, skin color, religion, or ethnicity.
– I’m having a hell of a time finding the clause in the constitution that outlines abortion rights.
– I’m having an even harder time finding the clause that demands constitutional involvement in religious matters.
who warned you guys you were gonna lose lose lose the whole gay marriage culture war thingy?
Losing the culture war = being wrong on principle
Got it.
24 hours to go in Cairo.
Place your bets: Morsti swings from the lamppost or Morse sends in the tanks.
I don’t think Morsi has the tanks at his disposal.
Obama is blatting weak sister support for Morsi.
Now what? Another not-war?
Adieu, adieu, eff you, eff you, eff you-ou.
&c.
Things like prop 8 get in the state constitution because activists judges could not stay out of the issue of SSM to begin with.
That Woody Allen thing is pretty funny.
…says the one what coined the term “lifeydoodle.” Just oozing with respect, that one is.
That sound you hear, ‘feets, is not people laughing with you.
“Lifeydoodle” is a term of art. It is as gentle and nonjudgmental a way of denoting people what have a singular fixation on all things fetal as one can find in the king’s english.
and to your little boy and to your little girl and the one hand clapping … where on your palm is my little line when you’re written in mine as an old memory
lifeydoodle is the rotten fruit of thy spirit.
no it isn’t you’re completely off base
babyfeetsinajardoodle
The opposite of “lifeydoodle” is “staunchyghoul.”
there’s no such thing as a staunchyghoul you completely made that word up
Lettheairinit’sperfectlysimpledoodles…
who’sgonnapayforretardbabyhootchydoodles…
*hoochie*
pickledbabysfeetinajarhoochie
Ladies Voices making Gosnellian Choices. STFU live-baby fetishists. Tissues will be scraped and evacuated.
Lady’s
The statue of liberty is now the statue of ‘Whatever the fuck you want if you are a protected class deemed valuable to the erection of the coming utopia’.
is fetus meat tender like veal babyfeets?
‘feets, you’re just like a kid with chocolate smeared all over his face who nonetheless vehemently denies having eaten any chocolate.
m&ms are a good way to get your chockit fix to where you don’t get any on your face
they’re made by the mars family
a lot of people don’t know that originally m&ms were a collaboration between mars and hershey cause of back in the day there was a war going on or whatever so the government rationed chockit and mars needed hershey’s rations to mass produce the m&ms
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