Maybe he believes that being liberal makes you gay. Hard to tell.
Meanwhile, I can’t wait for our resident Constitutional Scholar, Clothahump, to expand a bit on his thesis.
Sigh. That’s the problem. I do have the ability. Apparently, I am one of very few people on this board who does have that ability. The rest of you are too busy in a massive circle jerk over “gay rights” to give a shit about the damage being done.
But that’s nothing new.
Damage being done? I’m not following you.
Of course it’s the same court that refused to take on a case in March challenging an Appeals Court ruling that upheld Wisconsin’s Voter ID law. Taken together, the Court’s refusal to weigh in doesn’t necessarily side strictly with one or the other partisan sides.
I think he’s saying that we’re so focused on the imaginary discrimination against gay people, which hasn’t happened to anyone anywhere and hasn’t hurt anybody, that we haven’t paid close attention to the rampant epidemic of voter fraud, which has definitely been happening all the time everywhere and is the greatest threat imaginable to all of us.
We need a sarcasm tag.
Because someone is willing to pay it. That’s the definition of the word “worth.”
Why do you hate the free market? Do you believe there should be a government-regulated price-cap for speakers at private events? Socialist!
Actually, given his yammering about “damage to the 10th amendment,” it seems pretty clear that his argument is that unless we allow states to discriminate against gay people, we’ll have lost our freedom because… well, just because.
I vaguely wonder if **Clothy ** also got all het up over the SCOTUS limiting the states’ abilities to discriminate against black people in the 50s and 60s.
Could you send me a picture of yourself? I want to add it to the Wikipedia entry on “Dunning-Kruger effect”.
Phaw … it’s called “Turkey Tech” locally … and for good reason.
Sorry to say but George Takei gets the stupid idea award today.
In commenting on the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage he called Justice Thomas “a clown in blackface.” Cite
Disagree with him all you want, but using racist imagery to describe the high court’s only African American is a today’s dumb liberal idea.
Too bad. I like Takei and generally agree with him.
I don’t have a problem with what Takei said, except I don’t get why this is what triggered his outrage:
I thought that saying someone has dignity (aka, self-respect) in the face of adversity was an admirable quality. 
You don’t realize what the queers are doing go to the soil.
In his opinion in the marriage case, Justice Kennedy argued that same-sex couples should be provided the equal dignity of marriage rights:
Justice Thomas said in his dissent that the government can’t give people dignity:
He’s saying that it doesn’t take away people’s dignity to deny them the right to marry. While it’s true that it is admirable for gay people to retain their dignity in the face of discrimination, or for black people to maintain their dignity in the face of slavery, that doesn’t mean that discrimination and slavery aren’t assaults on people’s dignity.
You know what, Mr. Miskatonic? I like you. You’re not like the other people here in the trailer park.
I understand that – I’d say there is intrinsic dignity, which I addressed, and extrinsic dignity, which you are addressing. In the context of this case, I see your point, so I’ll heartilly agree with you lest I be thought of as defending Thomas (shudder).
Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don’t believe it
While I understand the context of Takei’s remarks (playing off the clown makeup/blackface thing) and while I understand why Thomas’ remarks have infuriated him so much (as a former Japanese internment camp detainee I doubt he saw much dignity in the situation), I’m gonna chalk this one up to a “questionable choice of wording” by George.
Takei has responded to the question of racist intent on Facebook:
Whether that improves things or not is up to you.
Once again the difference in this thread is striking.
A Supreme Court justice makes some tone deaf remarks in a dissent and an actor using some inartful words in response on Facebook makes the cut here.
The same case prompts leaders of the Republican party to demand impeachment, civil disobedience and even getting rid of the court entirety…
They run their lunatics for President.