Here’s one advantage to federally recognized marriage equality even the staunchest conservative should be able to get behind: an end to government spending on obstructing the arc of the moral universe.
And we’re not talking chump change. In just one case, The Detroit Press reports the sate of Michigan has essentially lit $2 million in taxpayer cheddar on fire in its fruitless quest to prevent April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse and any couple like them (you know, gay ones) from getting married or adopting children. And that’s not even including what it cost them to argue against the plaintiffs.
DeBoer and Rowse’s lawyers are asking a judge to require the state to cough up for the six lawyers, plus seven law clerks, multiple paralegals and experts from Boston, New York, San Francisco and Lansing it took to win the case, which dragged on for three years.
The suit was even presented as part of the argument against state bans on same-marriage in the Supreme Court case. Good going, Michigan.
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“This says we are people. We are establishing families and we’re just like everyone else,” Rowse said of the SCOTUS decision, according to MLive. “We’re the next door neighbor, we’re your co-worker, we’re your sister, we’re your friend, we’re your child, and we do deserve the same rights as everyone else and our kids deserve the same rights. We’re starting to see the discrimination just shouldn’t be there.”
In January, The Detroit Press reported that Michigan faced a mid-year deficit of $325 million.
How many other pointless and costly battles have they been fighting?
h/t RawStory
Sweetie Pie
As if they had a choice….
Desert Boy
The party of Archie Bunker must evolve or like the Neanderthals, the GOP will die.
Xzamilio
@Desert Boy: Yeah, but even Archie Bunker had moments of open-mindedness. Norman Lear was a genius… it’s an absolute shame that a fictional bigoted character had more emotional depth than these assclowns on Capitol Hill
Ladbrook
I’m thinking most would love to forget and move on, but a portion of their donor base (and of course, their voting base) doesn’t want them to move on, much less embrace SS marriage or general equality across the board. So until the Duggars, Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins, and that Bible-thumping crowd of asswipes currently destroying Uganda accept Obergefell, nothing will change.
Giancarlo85
I think conservatives should shut up and stop trying to influence policy in general. The last time these brainless asshats had power they drove the country into a deep recession and caused two catastrophic wars. Their domestic policy is also shit as they try to dismantle social security, privatize health care (making it impossible for anyone who isn’t rich to afford it), and destroy the environment.
I think these low information asshats should just shut up.
martinbakman
Their solicitor general that argued the case for Michigan sounded gay as a goose to me (oh! did I say that? Oops) and seems I’m not alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQy8jKv_5k
1EqualityUSA
If the Tedious Right succeeded in making us second-class citizens, who else would be targeted?
AtticusBennett
another reason – you’re harming your own kids. the gay men that don’t manage to break away from the shackles of their right-wing parent’s bigotries end up becoming self-hating cowardly internet trolls.
o.codone
@Giancarlo85: There you go again. Hey little girl from Colombia, stop trying to be Miss America. You are trying way too hard to fit in. You’ll never actually be an American, so try to accept that. It’s okay to have a little ethnicity, in fact, it’s hot. So, don’t try so hard to get rid of it, keep it, keep that accent, keep the ethnic looks, it’s a good thing.
Regarding your posts, your cringe factor is now a ten. Very few can surpass you in that category. The venom that comes from your mouth is silly, but more than anything, it’s non-stop. You cannot shut up. Did you just learn the word “asshat”? You used it like 50 times in every comment.
Your hatred for Christians is ugly. Live and let live bro, not everybody has to believe what you believe, people have different opinions and different viewpoints. Get used to it. Stop being preachy, there are many gay Christians with unique viewpoints. You, my friend are NOT going to change the world by screaming at conservative Christians.
Please take your own inventory. Make some changes. You are a smart kid, that shows, but nobody can hear what you’re saying because of all the blather that obfuscates your points. Mature a little. There’s an American saying which you probably are not familiar with. It says: “if you cannot say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. Try it. (and we will never hear from you again). Love you man. – JJ (your friend).
Giancarlo85
@o.codone: Hey it’s MR DIPSHIT. What a surprise! The little neo-fasc*i*s*t who has a painkiller addiction. You’ll never be anyone. You’re not even real. You are just another bot that posts a lot of raandom garbage. You keep your illiterate garbage and right wing mental paranoia.
You are a sick little man with mental problems. Possible brain damage from your parents putting you in a dryer when you were younger. You are the one that cannot shut up because you’re mouth is like verbal diarrhea. The endless flow of shit coming out of your mouth is nauseating.
I wasn’t even talking to you but you insist on replying to a post wasn’t even directed to you. Little moron, let me give you a hint… nobody cares what you think. My hatred for Christians? Ugly little man… it has nothing to do with “hating”, but opposing right wing extremists who want to put in conservative laws to force you to become a servant.
A gay christian is like a gay conservative… a dumb walking contradiction. You are a dumb walking contradiction with mental brain damage (possibly from an alcoholic mother who shoved your pathetic ass into a dryer).
You are the one that needs to check your own inventory. You are a disease on this site, and you need to disappear for good. Conservatism is eating away what little mental sanity you have left. Your conservatism is a mental disease. You are the one that needs to do a lot of maturing to do and fast, before something happens to you.
Dumb fuck.
Giancarlo85
“You’ll never actually be an American, so try to accept that. It’s okay to have a little ethnicity, in fact, it’s hot. So, don’t try so hard to get rid of it, keep it, keep that accent, keep the ethnic looks, it’s a good thing.”
And a little xenophobe ra*c*is*t. There is no such thing as an “American”. Stop dreaming. This country is one built on fraud and lies.
o.codone
@Giancarlo85: asshat. hahaahaha.