Federal judge declares Oklahoma marriage equality ban unconstitutional http://t.co/TNwOGAHhEr If Oklahoma and Utah fall, the war is over. The real question is will people be able to have cold >3.5 beer at the weddings?
Derplahomans are still in shock at this point, I have no doubt they're crafting some perfectly derp final solution as we type.
Somewhere in Austin, a prematurely bald young man is loading a UHaul with all his belongings, leaving behind his family for his one true love. Aenea, brace yourself for some...news.
I'm guessing this will quickly be stayed, and now we are pretty much guaranteed to have a Loving case before the SCOTUS, as this makes it a multi-state question.
Nah. It's the same Circuit court. It's no different from the Supreme Court's view than if another Utah judge had issued the ruling. And it's not a split anyway. Now when a federal judge in Texas rules their ban Constitutional we'll be in business.
Sadly, the Brokeback Mountain photoshop seems to have been a casualty of a hard drive crash. (I do still have one or two of Cass' old avatars with Hitler moustaches on them, though.)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/...rriage_ban_federal_judge_strikes_it_down.html A good piece on how this ruling in particular called out SCOTUS, made great by the use of the term 'benchslap'.
There is no way I'm leaving Austin for Oklahoma. We'll just have to wait until it's legal here in Texas.
We really are social pioneers up here. We had black college football coaches before you, we'll have gay marriage before you, if we could just get real beer....
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57391605-78/marriage-sex-percent-state.html.csp Even in Utah the population is evenly split on whither gay marriage should be legal and that's one of the most conservative states in the country. The bigots have lost. The reality of the equal protection clause as applied to marriage equality has won the day.
Still haven't heard a single thing negative on Facebook, and I have some conservatives on there. I heard one blurb on a news channel. Pretty proud of Oklahoma on this one. Lol
Unless you buy it from a dedicated liquor store (For which there is none where my mom lives) you can only get beer that's less than 3.5% alchohol
And at least when I was down there partying in Stillwater (ten years ago now) the State Store wouldn't sell cold beer.
And yet you'll hear the gun nuts claim those states are "free" yet the ones which allow marriage equality, have liberal alcohol laws, and liberal MJ laws are somehow "unfree" simply because they have reasonable gun laws (such as gun registration).
Haven't some people referred to Austin (not in a complimentary way) as the "San Francisco of the south"?
That's an interesting comment, because whenever I hear it referred to in that way, I consider that to mean Austin is a cool place. People from cool places like Austin and San Francisco don't really care what bigots from places like Arkansas think of them.
I've never heard in that way. I always hear about food and music. Funny thing is Texas Univ. is in Austin, but I never associate football with the town like I do Stillwater or Norman.
That's because there are things in town besides the university. Seriously, the only place in Texas that seems to be defined by its university is Bryan-College Station (the school is literally older than the town where it's located). I've not been to a city in this state where the local university was so pervasive throughout the community. Even Lubbock, which is in the middle of nowhere, doesn't seem to be as consumed by Texas Tech as B/CS is by the cult on the Brazos river.
Agreed, I really don't care what people from the backwards states think of Austin. I really don't care what people anywhere else think of it to tell the truth. It's without a doubt one of the best cities in America. Also if being compared to San Francisco is supposed to be a bad thing that is news to me.
