EVERY F*CKING CHALLENGE we are facing in the USA, and the MAGAt (formerly "Supreme") court locks in on same sex marriage

[Miles Archer]

I GET IT. If Clarence doesn't tickle the Evangelicals' balls on this, the cash stops flowing to the GOP.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett signaled in a recent interview that she, at least, is not fully on board with a renewed push to overturn the right to same-sex marriage.

According to Newsweek, Barrett made the comments during an interview with right-leaning New York Times analyst Ross Douthat, who asked her about "social reliance interests" that the court might have to consider in certain cases. “The Supreme Court recognized a right to same-sex marriage. Originalist justices at the time believed that ruling was wrongly decided. One of the arguments for why Obergefell v. Hodges is unlikely to ever be overturned is the idea that people have made decisions about who to marry and therefore where to live and children ... Everything else, on the basis of that ruling.”

Barrett, the last of President Donald Trump's three Supreme Court appointees and the deciding vote to end abortion rights, seemed to agree with this line of thinking, calling it a “very concrete reliance interest.” She further defined "reliance interest" to mean “things that would be upset or undone if a decision is undone.”

This stands in contrast to Justice Clarence Thomas, who has recently written in his opinions that he wants the court to revisit the entire concept of "substantive due process" — the legal doctrine that not only protects the right to same-sex marriage, but also the right to consensual same-sex relationships and contraception.

https://www.rawstory.com/amy-coney-barrett-2674209960/

[2MuchNoise]

1. Marriage equality hurts NO ONE!

I will never, ever, ever understand why they just won't let us be.

[Miles Archer]

2. Here's my take on it.

I'd give the originator of this credit if I could remember who that was, but...

...any relationship...an actual, committed relationship...can have all of the joys and strife and ups and downs, regardless of the sexual orientation of the two people involved.

It's an ADVENTURE.

Good days, bad days, happy memories, arguments, just an endless list of opposites that can happen on any given day.

So ANYONE WHO COMMITS to a relationship has my admiration and respect. I've been with my girlfriend for ten years. IT HAS REQUIRED EFFORT on both our parts and the effort was WORTH it.

If two people want to be together, and no one's getting hurt by it, LET THEM BE TOGETHER and WISH THEM WELL.

(And by "no one getting hurt," I don't mean right wingers and evangelicals "not approving." It's none of their business).

I am guessing the reason why Clarence wants to sink his fangs into this one is that he believes there are more "liberal" same-sex couples than "conservatives." I don't believe that, but his motivation IS "to make liberals' lives as miserable as they made his."