“All who see these flags at this lowered position [will] be reminded of this despicable Supreme Court travesty.”
Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles, speaking for the three commissioners in Dent County, Missouri, who voted unanimously to lower the American flags at the county courthouse and judicial building on the 26th day of each month from now until June of next year to protest the Supreme Court’s June 26th ruling allowing same-sex marriage.
“Dude just called me a faggot from his passenger window. I said take it back. He laughed. I threw my new sweet tea right through his window. It exploded in his truck. He was carrying a boat. No hopes of catching up to me.”
Robbie C., Fort Lauderdale, FL
“I’m at CVS and I’m on the fence…my heart is pleading with me to buy the ultra-fashionable Suzanne Somers 3-in-1 poncho! I can take my saucy sense of fashion from the boardroom to a festive cocktail party to a night on the town…but my wallet says no…you can’t afford such chic haute couture! Does Joyce DeWitt make a poncho?”
Adam Cohen, social commentator, Wilton Manors, FL
“It amazes me how intellectually nimble people can be with regard to one issue while simultaneously being obtuse with regard to another. The mental gymnastics in which many Evangelicals and Catholics engage in order to convince themselves that they are the real victims of persecution in America are worthy of a gold medal. There is no issue too grim, too new, or too heartbreaking that they will not wholly co-opt for the purposes of convincing themselves that they are, in America, the oppressed minority. Yet they have simultaneously turned off those same cognitive skills with regard to the very real plight of any other group in America because, in their minds, the only persecuted group in America is Christians.”
Benjamin Dixon, the host of The Benjamin Dixon Show and author of God is Not a Republican, posting this week on Patheos.com
“I have always loved being a Kentuckian. I’m honored to be a Kentucky Colonel, commissioned by Governor Steve Beshear. I’m a proud graduate of three institutions of higher education, my PhD from the state’s flagship school, the University of Kentucky, [where] I was employed for over 12 years in both Student Affairs and Medical Education. However, I am ashamed that elected officials of my state will not follow the mandates of the U.S. Supreme Court [and] refuses to do so because a handful of people’s discriminatory views. These people have been told directly by Governor Beshear that if, for whatever reason, they are unwilling to perform their duties, they should resign. It’s 2015, Kentucky. Let’s show the nation that we are state of which everyone can be a proud resident.”
Steven O. Evans, Founder/CEO of Outclique.com and Minister of Music and Worship at The Sanctuary Church in Fort Lauderdale.
“Gov. Beshear is right on point here — it’s prudent governance to protect the state coffers from self-righteous elected officials who seek to exploit tens or hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in lengthy litigation just to pursue a nonexistent right to discriminate. Do the job you’re elected to do or get out — it’s that simple, as the governor has put it.”
– Chris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, an LGBTQ group in Kentucky, commenting on Gov. Steve Beshear’s (D-Ky.) directives to clerks to issue same-sex marriage licences despite their personal religious views on the subject, quoted in the Washington Blade.
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