Happy Marriage Equality Day!

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date June 26, 2015
158 Comments on Happy Marriage Equality Day!

You meow kiss the bride. The other bride.

We’re taking a day off from the regular nonsense to celebrate marriage equality, which is now a thing in all states here in the USA.

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Tina S

9 years ago

Woo hoo!!! Bout bloody freaking time!!!

Nequam

9 years ago

For all his hyperbole, what this boils down to is a statement that a clerk who, for instance, refuses to sign a marriage license for a same-sex couple cannot be fired for that refusal.

I wonder how this works with Texas’s being an at-will employment state?

chaltab

9 years ago

@andiexist

I dunno that’s a slippery slope. First you let people get married on hover boards, then soon you’ll be letting them get married standing on the backs of elephants or surfing a 50-foot wave.

skybison

9 years ago

As a Canadian I’m very sad about this news. Between this and Obama care we’re losing our ability to claim superiority over the US. It’s the only source of national pride we have! Leave us with something…

But seriously good on you. I can’t wait to hear the all the fundie preachers who threaten God’s wrath on the united states if gay marriage happened try to explain where the hordes of locusts are.

weirwoodtreehugger

9 years ago

You Canadians still make the best poutine. Don’t worry!

You also have the best kids shows. I’ve been revisiting the original 80s Degrassi and I love it. Their very special episodes aren’t pandering and they actually show characters having abortions.

I also loved Fifteen even though it’s terrible.

DonVoyage

9 years ago

This is pretty amazing, I didn’t think this would happen in my lifetime.

Plus, its fun to see how much reactionaries are shitting their pants over this, some dude named Bryan Fischer is calling this the new 911.

Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)

9 years ago

@skybison

Weed is still illegal here at least. 😛

Paradoxical Intention

9 years ago

skybison | June 26, 2015 at 6:26 pm
As a Canadian I’m very sad about this news. Between this and Obama care we’re losing our ability to claim superiority over the US. It’s the only source of national pride we have! Leave us with something…

You’ll forever be better than us at being nice, maple syurp, and hockey?

But seriously good on you. I can’t wait to hear the all the fundie preachers who threaten God’s wrath on the united states if gay marriage happened try to explain where the hordes of locusts are.

WBC’s already on it.

Catalpa

9 years ago

As a Canadian I’m very sad about this news. Between this and Obama care we’re losing our ability to claim superiority over the US. It’s the only source of national pride we have! Leave us with something…

Well, we still get to claim some hipster credit for legalizing it before it was cool. Which is a hard thing to do in Canada, since it’s always freezing here! *badum-tsh*

But no seriously, kudos, America. Now let’s start tackling the high number of homeless LGBT+ youth, high suicide rate, and workplace discrimination, yeah!

katz

9 years ago

Today was a day I feel I could drink before 6.

I think 5-year-olds are too young to be drinking.

megpie71

9 years ago

Congratulations to the USA. Now, hopefully this will prompt the Australian federal government to make it legal here. (Of course, this will require possible surgical intervention to remedy our Prime Minister’s impacted cranio-rectal syndrome).

epitome of incomprehensibility

9 years ago

YAY! I actually first heard about it reading the comments in the other WHTM thread. Congratulations to the States!

epitome of incomprehensibility

9 years ago

I think 5-year-olds are too young to be drinking.

🙂

Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)

9 years ago

@katz

LOL

Miss Andry

9 years ago

@Paradoxical Intention

WBC you say?

Josh Miller

9 years ago

Hell, yeah, it’s about time! I told my 7yo little girl as soon as I heard the news this morning, “Today is a victory for the good guys.” I don’t want to claim a victory for myself, because I’m neither gay nor did I actively participate in helping it happen– I only openly advocated for it. But I still feel like Kevin on The Office after his wife left him when he said, “It’s just nice to win one…”
Congrats, gay community, you’ve earned this one.

katz

9 years ago

The Lord Jesus Christ will soon return!

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1889307/thumbs/o-JESUS-570.jpg?6

katz

9 years ago

Stupid embed.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1889307/thumbs/o-JESUS-570.jpg

Josh Miller

9 years ago

Honest question to anyone knowledgable: This being a Supreme Court ruling, there’s no higher authority in our country, legally speaking, so…can this be undone? The ruling can’t be challenged or appealed because the SC is the highest appellate court, right? Does the President have the power to challenge it (not that Obama would)? Or if a Republican gets elected in 2016 and places his/her own hand-picked justices on the bench, can the decision be reviewed then? I just don’t want this good news to be snatched away from the gay community and all those who have worked so tirelessly to achieve it. Can it be?

Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever)

9 years ago

@Miss Andry

😐

katz

9 years ago

Honest question to anyone knowledgable: This being a Supreme Court ruling, there’s no higher authority in our country, legally speaking, so…can this be undone? The ruling can’t be challenged or appealed because the SC is the highest appellate court, right? Does the President have the power to challenge it (not that Obama would)? Or if a Republican gets elected in 2016 and places his/her own hand-picked justices on the bench, can the decision be reviewed then? I just don’t want this good news to be snatched away from the gay community and all those who have worked so tirelessly to achieve it. Can it be?

It can be undone by a constitutional amendment, which requires a supermajority of Congress or 3/4 of the states.

So, snowball’s chance in Hell.