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Monday, June 15, 2015

Marriage News Watch, June 15, 2015

With the Supreme Court due to rule on marriage any day now, Presidential "candidate" Rick Santorum says he would fight back against a pro-equality ruling. He says that states allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry is a violation of his religious freedom, which is an argument a lot people made about interracial marriage in the 60s. So do couples need to worry about the possibility that Rick Santorum could stop them from marrying? No. For one thing, the president doesn't get to veto Supreme Court rulings. And for another, Rick Santorum will never be president.


More on Santorum's rationale for for refusing to enforce same-sex marriage (and what the hell does that even mean?):

When the United States government comes in and says this is what you are going to believe, this is how you're going to practice your faith, this is a new religion. This violates, in my opinion, the Establishment Clause in the Constitution that says that Congress shall make no law with respect to an establishment of religion. If the government goes around and tells churches what they have to believe in and what their doctrine is, that is something that is a violation of the First Amendment.

If you're sitting there thinking "WTF is he talking about?", join the club.

Or you can take it as just another example of the fundamental narcissism of the "Christian" right: somehow, in their universe, someone else's marriage is about them.


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