So says Speaker Boehner:
At a Thursday press conference — ironically focusing on his view that “Washington has a spending problem” — House Speaker John Boehner was asked about the expenditures. The Ohio Republican angrily responded that if the Department of Justice won’t defend the law of the land, Congress will.Your tax dollars at work!
There's a reason I make a point of mispronouncing his name in the most childish way possible.
Oh, don't worry, that's not an actual spending increase, since apparently the funds were raided from the DoJ's salary budget. That's the line of defense, anyway.
Those salaries, I'm certain, will not have to be recouped somehow else, actually ending up in a real spending increase. Nope.
For instance, I give you Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist who doesn't believe the 14th Amendment applies to gays and lesbians:
And it's also not beneficial and does not stand the definition of marriage, used for millenia - that is, the act of consummation. It's another sad fact of homosexual behavior that two men or two women can never consummate a marriage; they can never conceive children together.
So if that's the definition of marriage used for millennia, can someone tell me for how long that's been the definition of "consummate"?
Oh, don't worry, that's not an actual spending increase, since apparently the funds were raided from the DoJ's salary budget. That's the line of defense, anyway.
Those salaries, I'm certain, will not have to be recouped somehow else, actually ending up in a real spending increase. Nope.
Uh, so they'd rather pay lawyers to defend DOMA than to actually prosecute crime? Unbelievable.
Uh, so they'd rather pay lawyers to defend DOMA than to actually prosecute crime? Unbelievable.
DUDES BANGING IS A CRIME, COMMUNIST.
I think that ship has sailed. ;)
You just had to bring up seamen... guilty by association!
RoughneckGeek wrote:I think that ship has sailed. ;)
You just had to bring up seamen... guilty by association!
RNG? Association.. umm...
If dude banging is a crime, THEN LET ME BE GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!
This is so sig-able.
Phoenix Rev wrote:Bloo Driver wrote:Nevin73 wrote:Uh, so they'd rather pay lawyers to defend DOMA than to actually prosecute crime? Unbelievable.
DUDES BANGING IS A CRIME, COMMUNIST.
If dude banging is a crime, THEN LET ME BE GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!
I think that ship has sailed. ;)
Quite. *grin*
Phoenix Rev wrote:For instance, I give you Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist who doesn't believe the 14th Amendment applies to gays and lesbians:
And it's also not beneficial and does not stand the definition of marriage, used for millenia - that is, the act of consummation. It's another sad fact of homosexual behavior that two men or two women can never consummate a marriage; they can never conceive children together.So if that's the definition of marriage used for millennia, can someone tell me for how long that's been the definition of "consummate"?
According to Catholic canon law, consummation is an act suitable to produce offspring. Given her background I am pretty certain that is where she would be getting her definition. And it's no use arguing about it with her - Since it's written in canon law, no other interpretations or definitions would be allowable, basically.
CheezePavilion wrote:Phoenix Rev wrote:For instance, I give you Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist who doesn't believe the 14th Amendment applies to gays and lesbians:
And it's also not beneficial and does not stand the definition of marriage, used for millenia - that is, the act of consummation. It's another sad fact of homosexual behavior that two men or two women can never consummate a marriage; they can never conceive children together.So if that's the definition of marriage used for millennia, can someone tell me for how long that's been the definition of "consummate"?
According to Catholic canon law, consummation is an act suitable to produce offspring. Given her background I am pretty certain that is where she would be getting her definition. And it's no use arguing about it with her - Since it's written in canon law, no other interpretations or definitions would be allowable, basically.
Nice find!
So... those guys who bone a bridesmaid before the reception (i.e. before he and his new wife can consumate their marriage) are in the clear?
More seriously... what about a couple who is physically incapable of having kids. Their intimate act is one that doesn't lead to having children. Are they also incapable of consumating their marriage?
So... those guys who bone a bridesmaid before the reception (i.e. before he and his new wife can consumate their marriage) are in the clear?
More seriously... what about a couple who is physically incapable of having kids. Their intimate act is one that doesn't lead to having children. Are they also incapable of consumating their marriage?
Following up on imbiginjapan's post, I learned that while infertility is not a bar to consummation, impotence is. So that kinda sucks if you got your junk blown off in Iraq by an IED before you got married and had the chance for P-in-the-V sex.
After all, who better to lecture us on justice and peace than someone who aided and abetted one of the largest pedophile protection rackets in history?
Of course he did - that would be bad publicity, and the church is all about the bottom line, really. Hence the family resemblance below:
The pope is Benedict Shimerman?
Heh! I'll note that Quark's hand was photoshopped in for comedic effect.
We now cross the Atlantic and land in the Vatican where the official newspaper of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, featured a front-page editorial stating that same-sex couples exist in a "different reality" because they cannot conceive children.
Saying that marriage between a woman and a man is equal to that between two homosexuals is, in fact, a denial of the truth that affects one of the basic structures of human society, the family. We cannot base a society on these foundations without then paying a very high price as happened in the past when there was an attempt to achieve total economic and social equality. Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?Yeah! To hell with social equality! My God! That may lead to peace and justice and harmony!
And who wants that?
When you claim to be the only true path to peace and happiness, it's bad for business if people figure out how to get there without following your rules.
Phoenix Rev wrote:We now cross the Atlantic and land in the Vatican where the official newspaper of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, featured a front-page editorial stating that same-sex couples exist in a "different reality" because they cannot conceive children.
Saying that marriage between a woman and a man is equal to that between two homosexuals is, in fact, a denial of the truth that affects one of the basic structures of human society, the family. We cannot base a society on these foundations without then paying a very high price as happened in the past when there was an attempt to achieve total economic and social equality. Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?Yeah! To hell with social equality! My God! That may lead to peace and justice and harmony!
And who wants that?
When you claim to be the only true path to peace and happiness, it's bad for business if people figure out how to get there without following your rules.
...can't believe I never thought of it that way. Genius!
We now cross the Atlantic and land in the Vatican where the official newspaper of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, featured a front-page editorial stating that same-sex couples exist in a "different reality" because they cannot conceive children.
Saying that marriage between a woman and a man is equal to that between two homosexuals is, in fact, a denial of the truth that affects one of the basic structures of human society, the family. We cannot base a society on these foundations without then paying a very high price as happened in the past when there was an attempt to achieve total economic and social equality. Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?Yeah! To hell with social equality! My God! That may lead to peace and justice and harmony!
And who wants that?
Always glad to hear my marriage is invalid because of my vasectomy. In other news, the Pope is now on Twitter (@pontifex), presumably because Twitter is 6.
We cannot base a society on these foundations without then paying a very high price as happened in the past when there was an attempt to achieve total economic and social equality. Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?
I'm confused. Is the pope comparing supporting equal rights to socialism/communism? Did the pope really come out with a statement saying social equality is bad? Is the pope really against the idea of "chase"ing after a utopia where all people are treated equally regardless of who they are? Wow. Dumbass. Isn't there a line in the bible that we are all equal before the eyes of god?
EDIT:
Always glad to hear my marriage is invalid because of my vasectomy. In other news, the Pope is now on Twitter (@pontifex), presumably because Twitter is 6.
Heyooooooooooo!
:Shock:
Newt's going rogue!
It was inevitable that a GOP politician would eventually wake up and smell the polling numbers.
And what a better time to rail against same-sex marriage than in a Christmas address to the faithful:
At his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI called same-sex marriage a “manipulation of nature” to be deplored and an attack on the “essence of the human creature.”It was the second time this week that Benedict took aim at marriage equality:
People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned.
Says the man who took a vow of celibacy and, you know, denied his nature and decided that it is not something previously given to him.
So, on the day the Catholic Church celebrates Christ and all his glory, he spends a chunk of his address talking about something that Jesus himself had nothing to say on. Does he understand most people probably listened to this to get some good Christmas stories and not his new hellfire topic of the month?
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