The byline says Associated Press, though. I know news organizations can cut stuff out of AP stories (I’ve seen it elsewhere), but I don’t think they’re allowed to rewrite it. So (much as I hate to say it), it looks like Fox isn’t at fault.
DAMNIT, I READ THE THREAD!
AP posted a correction. It was their doing.
And at least two outlets have posted the corrected version, though the one at the original link does not seem to have had the chance to get around to it.
Because unlike the rest of us, they have a lot to love if liberals/progressives get their hands on the levers of power?
Are you calling liberals fat?
Psst. Basic Income. Picking up steam in the more civilized countries, still relatively unknown outside progressive circles in the US. Gonna make conservatives and libertarians squeal like the pigs they are!
I have sometimes thought that rather than think of new systems of government, the most effective way to build a better world might involve coming up with ways of detecting and rendering harmless sociopaths.
Er … a lot to* lose.* Clearly, the BBW/Billionaire erotic fiction I’m writing at the moment is affecting my typing.
And not terribly different from the Negative Income Tax proposed by the notorious Communist Milton Friedman.
Well, I guess you could render them, but who would buy the finished product? I think your business model is unfinished.
So,
[quote=“[(excerpt of) text of OK-HB1125]
(http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2015-16%20INT/hB/HB1125%20INT.PDF)”]Section 7. A. [del]All[/del] Except as provided in subsection E of this section marriages must be contracted by a formal ceremony performed or solemnized in the presence of at least two adult, competent persons as witnesses, by [del]a judge or retired judge of any court in this state, or[/del] an ordained or authorized preacher or minister of the Gospel, priest or other ecclesiastical dignitary of any denomination who has been duly ordained or authorized by the church to which he or she belongs to preach the Gospel, or a rabbi and who is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
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… fuck the mussulmen?
(Note that it would still be possible to get a common law marriage certificate, but the fee would be $50 instead of $5.)
The finished product would be good for making soap and candles.
She isn’t. Our Mayor & her partner had to go to California to marry.
Mayor Parker behaved quite professionally at the news conference where Our Governor & Our Jr Senator hogged some limelight–wearing macho-man jackets to look like they’d been out rescuing kitten and puppies from the flood waters. Both these idiots have been campaigning against gay marriage, most hatefully. Well, Cruz has been pretty hateful.
Films from Houston looked pretty bad but it is known to flood here; the water drains off pretty quickly. Traffic was a mess & some houses were flooded–mostly in a neighborhood housing Texas Medical Center employees. A few people died–but the city has hardly been cleansed of sodomites.
The worst flooding is rural–along the rivers. The cities just got more coverage.
What about other religions besides Christianity and Judaism? Hindus have to be married by Christian or Jewish clergy? Pagans? Satanists?
And note that the proposed statute requires marriages to involve a ceremony, so presumably if there’s no ceremony there’s no marriage.
Is there any way at all that this is Constitutionally acceptable?
As I noted, they leave open the option of common law marriage, which seems to be effectively equivalent to sanctified marriage, at least as far as property and spawnlings. When it comes to power of attorney type stuff (e.g., plug-pulling), the partners would probably have to have an additional notarized document. At, of course, additional cost.
No.
Okay, so if a guy like me can see that it plainly is unconstitutional, how is it that all these jackasses can’t?
Or is this just posturing?
Combination of posturing, nullification, and “Oh, Lawdy, Lawd Gawd, In Jesus Blood Fucking Amen!” (Often seriously phrased as, “The laws of God take precedence over the laws of men.” These shits really believe that.)
Is it Oklahoma? Do they have a stone-tablets monument on the statehouse lawn? These guys are just testing the limits, to see what they can get away with (“hey, we included the Hebes, so it is not establishing A religion”). No one has ever gone to prison for writing a bad law. (Hmm, now that might be a thought …)