How long until America's first gay president?
Unless every state but California gets nuked probably quite a while.
EDIT: Decided to check which state was the first one to legalize gay marriage, was somewhat surprised it was Massachusetts, more because I often forget the state even exists than anything else. Beat the others to it by 5 years between it and the 2nd one to do so though, so hats off to Massachusetts for that.
True, but the first actual test of marriage laws occured in Hawaii, under Baehr v. Lewin decision. That decision was the basis for several consitutional amendments to various states and DOMA.
Also I'm annoyed that the best part of McCain's recent comments on Trump aren't being discussed. For your edification:
"I hate the press. I hate you especially," McCain told NBC's Chuck Todd, according to excerpts of the interview set to air Sunday. "But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital. If you want to preserve – I'm very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
I like the mental image of a Senator specifically taking the time to mention how much they hate a reporter.
Strange that if you are a 'good christian' you wouldn't hesitate to commit a cardinal sin.
There was one pastor on video who was saying if it wasn't for God's law then murder itself wouldn't be wrong by definition, and that he'd very much like to just line up and shoot everyone he doesn't like. So thank God there's a God and that guy isn't going to shoot you now.
Yeah, that's the kind of person I'm most afraid of, those who define right and wrong by God's law, rather than believing that acts are by their inherent nature good or bad, because they can decide that God is willing to make exceptions to his rules for people they don't like and actually shoot you.
Now see that's not necessarily true. You could very much want to shoot someone, but decide that's it's wrong because God (although typically these people don't
announce this fact). On the other hand, if someone wants to shoot you enough that they are going to pretend God is giving them license to do so, would them
not being religious make them any less likely to shoot you?
And as for defining right and wrong, if you have an absolute view of morality (as opposed to a relativist view), basing it on God is arguably the single best way of doing so, since God is absolute (and absolutely good, et cetera).
Those people are being internally consistent. It's the god-fearing moral relativists and the atheist absolutists who are on shaky ground.