Opponents divided on how — or whether — to resist justices’ ruling

[DonViejo]

When Friday began, there were 14 states where same-sex couples still could not legally marry. By the afternoon — after a confusing day of orders and counter-orders by governors, attorneys general and county clerks — couples had married in all of them but one.

The holdout was Louisiana. There, Attorney General James D. “Buddy” Caldwell (R) condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, as “federal government intrusion into what should be a state issue.”

What’s more, Caldwell said, he had read the text of the decision. And he’d found no specific line saying that Louisiana had to obey it.

“Therefore, there is not yet a legal requirement for officials to issue marriage licenses or perform marriages for same-sex couples in Louisiana,” he said in a statement. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), who announced Wednesday that he is running for president, criticized the justices’ decision but said his state will comply with it once an appeals court officially gives the order.

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[cantbeserious]

1. The South Yet Again - How Disappointing

eom

[Historic NY]

2. Same way the resisted Brown v Board of Ed.

they will stall, obfuscate and delay.

[gratuitous]

3. Don't get gay married - that'll show 'em

Or, take the tack of the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad in Monty Python's Life of Brian:

Silly sods.

[longship]

4. And then there's Rick Scarborough.

Let me quote from the WaPo article:

Scarborough is a minister, but he doesn’t have a church of his own to put on the line. Still, he’s encouraging others to do so, reminding them of a song about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego — Old Testament figures who were cast into a furnace because they would not renounce God.

“The song we teach our kids is, ‘They wouldn’t bend, they wouldn’t bow, they wouldn’t burn,’ ” he said. In this fight, Scarborough said, Christians may not be that fortunate: “We are not going to bend, we are not going to bow. If necessary, we are going to burn.”

My feeling... Let 'em burn. Does anybody have a match on them? Or a BiC? (Preferably with a can of gasoline.)

Of course, this is the douche who said he would self-immolate if SCOTUS found the way they did. Well, Rick. They did. Still waiting for the immolation...

Tick... tick... tick...

Funny. I don't smell any smoke yet. Or gasoline.

Still waiting...

Oh well. Rick, blow it out your fucking ass. And shut the fuck up.