Well…just a few minutes ago, the supreme court delivered a landmark decision that title VII of the 1964 civil rights act applies to LGBTQ people here in the US….and that means that no one can any longer be fired just for who they are…to say that I am surprised by this ruling is an understatement, and to have both Roberts and Gorsuch join the liberal justices in making sure that all Americans have the same rights and protections under the constitution is so surprising that it has many court watchers stunned given the outright hate that trump and his idiot minions show toward this community every damn day….as I have said for years now, this is exactly the ruling that should have been handed down…how can you uphold the 14th amendment that requires equal treatment under the laws and then carve out some Americans who are just not quite as equal as the rest of us? Do you hear those heads exploding at the WH? This is not the ruling that trump and his cronies paid for when they conspired with McConnell to put Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the court and I wonder if Both Roberts and Gorsuch see the writing on the wall that trump will be gone in 6 months and they need to start thinking of the rule of law and the damage they have done to it…especially Roberts who is cognizant of his legacy and the damage many rulings from the conservatives have done to it. Whatever the reason, if they made the right ruling even by accident it is a good day here in the US for our LBGTQ friends and family…finally, equal rights means equal rights and I can’t be more surprised they did the right thing…
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The country is moving on from the repubs…
Well….with the events from the Trump dumpster fire over the past week, it is looking more and more that the country is moving on from the core beliefs of the repubs….they want to build a wall and deport 11 million immigrants when a large majority of the rest of the country want some sort of sane immigration policy that would allow these workers to stay (a policy that was embraced by both Reagan an GHW Bush)….the Trump folks are still racist at heart and fear for the loss of “white privilege”…trying mightily to hang on to their shaky place in this society and decrying the idea that they just can’t be openly racist anymore..while supporting Trump for being a racist and “telling it like it is”…maybe it is to them, but the country has moved on and is trying to ensure all of us have the same opportunities….Trump and his followers salivate at the idea of overturning Obergfell and making gays second class citizens again while the country has moved on and accept the equal rights of the LGBT community…you get my drift? Trump and his followers are the last gasp of the idea that the rights of the “others” they don’t like is up to them…but the country has moved on from that whole premise…and is leaving them behind…all I can say is good riddance…this is 2016 not 1916….geez….
Idiots reign here in Michigan…
Well….has the stupid in the repubs here in Michigan reached it’s peak? Nope, not yet it appears…our wonderful gov and atty general here have decided to defend the discrimination built into the protect marriage act after a federal judge has said that the law is unconstitutional and has said that a suit by a same sex trying to adopt some special needs kids can go forward. The reasons to reject the couple’s claims that these idiots are citing are the same ones that the supreme court laughed at in striking down DOMA last month…but, that doesn’t deter the haters here…with Snyder and Schuette going so far as to say that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply…in direct opposition to the specific findings of the supreme court decision. So, the government here in Michigan is going to spend millions to defend a law that even a lay person can see is unconstitutional; pandering to their quickly shrinking base who are now far in the minority here…what happened to the will of the people? Just another instance where these righties have to do everything in their power to keep people that they hate from getting the full rights as American citizens…their time is numbered and I can’t wait until it ends and we can get back the America that doesn’t hate, that doesn’t try to limits rights for political gain, and that doesn’t do everything it can to subvert our democracy…geez…oh, and if you had any doubts, the people I’m talking about are all repubs…