# Supreme Court: Same-sex marriage legal nation wide **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532 "2015-06-26T14:19:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/81 "2015-06-26T18:38:12Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > My very conservative nephew has already thrown the polygamy and/or pets strawman on one of my celebratory posts. I am trying very hard to ignore it. You should ask him to marry you. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/82 "2015-06-26T18:41:45Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > …lesbians making out on the lawn… [Andrew Dice Clay]Isn’t that redundent? …Ooowwww![/adc] Seriously, what a great day this is, and 30 years sooner than some expected. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/83 "2015-06-26T18:45:26Z")
South Dakota has already updated their marriage licensing system to accept gender-neutral marriage licenses as of 1:00 pm CDT. And the first license was issued about five minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/84 "2015-06-26T18:56:16Z")
Sorry to keep quoting Buzzfeed (confession: I don’t really read the Web other than here and there lol) but I was really taken aback at all the brands that were promoting #LoveWins today. I’m used to things going “right” and then hearing nothing but backlash from “the right” and all the sour grapes who are opposed. [But seeing all of these national brands tweeting their pride](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/love-wins#.bubRKWvdd) - instead of hiding it or ignoring it - made me super extra happy today. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/85 "2015-06-26T18:56:44Z")
I just want to know when they’re going to start airing Gay Divorce Court. Now that will be fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/86 "2015-06-26T18:57:42Z")
Sorry, this just popped into my head… “Scuse me while I kiss this guy.” Well, I thought it was funny… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/87 "2015-06-26T19:14:30Z")
> [@Fiveroptic](#): > > I’m not sure you understand what a huge thing this is for those of us who have been denied the same right you’ve always taken for granted. I’ve waited 52 years for the day to come when I could legally marry the woman I love. You may have had to wait only long enough for the county clerk’s office to open the next morning. This is huge. That’s wonderful! Let me the first here to say happy wedding day to you! And welcome to the married club. It’s about time you could join. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/88 "2015-06-26T19:15:38Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I’m a little disappointed. The decision is nearly two hours old and there’s no video of that preacher in Texas setting himself on fire as promised. If someone hears this clown is going to make good on his promise, please PM me. I need to go out and buy marshmallows. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/89 "2015-06-26T19:16:54Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > If I were any more overjoyed, I’m pretty sure I’d be shooting rainbow lasers from my eyes and breathing clouds of bittersweet schadenfreude incense. 😃 > [@cmyk](#): > > Shooting rainbow lasers from your eyes would be awesome. Just sayin’. So would breathing (or farting) clouds of bittersweet schadenfreude incense. Just sayin’. Bonus points if the clouds are rainbow-colored, too. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/90 "2015-06-26T19:19:16Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I just want to know when they’re going to start airing Gay Divorce Court. > > Now that will be fabulous. There have already been some pretty ugly stories. Divorce plus homophobia plus rightist smugness is a nasty mix. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/91 "2015-06-26T19:30:44Z")
It is a wonderful week, full of the piss being taken out of the right wing, who are losing the battle to enforce their fantasy-thinking world view on the rest of us. So please, go ahead and claim this is about “Religious Freedom”, because you a\> Can’t establish a state religion, and b\> You can’t force your religion on others. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/92 "2015-06-26T19:36:33Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > So please, go ahead and claim this is about “Religious Freedom”, because you a\> Can’t establish a state religion, and b\> You can’t force your religion on others. “Something exists in the world that is contrary to my interpretation of my religion’s teachings, therefore I Am Oppressed.” Wail. Gnash teeth. Curtain. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/93 "2015-06-26T19:37:48Z")
I guess I have to break the news to my wife that we have to get divorced and find new SS partners and get gay married. Any of you other married guys in the same situation looking for a partner, consider me. I’ve got a good job and am pretty handy around the house. I don’t have an eye for decorating, but I suppose I’ll get better at that once I’m gay married. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/94 "2015-06-26T19:41:08Z")
Better be watching out for hornets around the Supreme Court, [some preacher at event put on by Ralph Reed called for them](http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/06/26/starnes-asks-god-to-send-plagues-of-hornets-on-his-enemies/): > [@](#): > > However, moral Christians should not be hopeless. Starnes finds hope for the salvation of America in the Old Testament’s Book of Exodus, in which God sent a “swarm of hornets to clear the battlefield” for an outnumbered Israelite army. This story, argued Starnes, should be the “battle prayer of every patriot saint.” > > “When the public schools tell students that our Founding Fathers were a bunch of terrorists: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear the field! When a teacher tells a little boy he can’t pray over his meal: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear that field! When the Pentagon tells them to take down a cross on a Christian chapel: Send those hornets! Clear the field! When the Supreme Court says they know better than God: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear the field! > > And, when the president says that America is no longer just a Christian nation: Don’t send the hornets, Lord. Send the mosquitoes and the gnats, and the bumblebees and the lightning bugs and the cicadas! Send every critter you got, Lord! Clear the field! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/95 "2015-06-26T19:42:23Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > I guess I have to break the news to my wife that we have to get divorced and find new SS partners and get gay married. Any of you other married guys in the same situation looking for a partner, consider me. I’ve got a good job and am pretty handy around the house. I don’t have an eye for decorating, but I suppose I’ll get better at that once I’m gay married. Maybe you and your wife can join me and my wife, and get a four-way marriage, like Justice Alito recommended? > [@](#): > > Alito: Well, what if there’s no – these are four people, two men and two women, it’s not – it’s not the sort of polygamous relationship, polygamous marriages that existed in other societies and still exist in some societies today. And let’s say they’re all consenting adults, highly educated. They’re all lawyers. What would be the ground under – under the logic of the decision you would like us to hand down in this case – what would be the logic of denying them the same right? ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/96 "2015-06-26T19:52:16Z")
**YAY!!!** I have to admit, I had no idea this was so close to happening. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/97 "2015-06-26T19:56:15Z")
Best line of the day: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the tears of Antonin Scalia.” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/98 "2015-06-26T20:04:15Z")
There are a lot of hyperbolic responses today, but this might be my favorite: > [@](#): > > “behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war” (Rev19:11). #Reigns > > [— American Family Assc (@AmericanFamAssc) June 26, 2015](https://twitter.com/AmericanFamAssc/status/614436216788918272) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/99 "2015-06-26T20:14:58Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Sorry to keep quoting Buzzfeed (confession: I don’t really read the Web other than here and there lol) but I was really taken aback at all the brands that were promoting #LoveWins today. I’m used to things going “right” and then hearing nothing but backlash from “the right” and all the sour grapes who are opposed. > > [But seeing all of these national brands tweeting their pride](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/love-wins#.bubRKWvdd) - instead of hiding it or ignoring it - made me super extra happy today. Skittles, however, wanted to stay out of the politics as a company, but they had an unfortunate product and packaging. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532/100 "2015-06-26T20:23:37Z")
Louisiana once again brings up the rear [No legal requirement to issue same sex marriage licences.](http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/2015/06/26/la-attorney-general-no-legal-requirement-to-issue-same-sex-license/29338455/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-legal-nation-wide/723532.md?page=6)