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Sure, it’s a big deal that Judge Walker struck down Prop 8, but it’s sucked up so much blog and media attention that I think we’re missing the dire unintended consequences of another, very similar ruling:
Mexico’s supreme court on Thursday upheld a landmark law that allows gay marriage in the capital city, bucking a challenge raised by the conservative government of President Felipe Calderon.
This year, Mexico City became the first capital in mainly Catholic Latin America to pass a law allowing gay couples the same marriage and adoption rights as heterosexuals.
Do you realize what this means? Millions of opposite-marriage-loving Mexicans will be forced to flee to the United States (but not California) to preserve the sanctity of their marriages!
In addition to the inevitable collapse of American society as we know it, think how many conservative heads will explode while trying to decide whether to vilify the interlopers or welcome them as brothers. (Pro Tip for Mexican marriage refugees: Tell Bill O’Reilly how much you love Christmas and falafel – I know it sounds weird, but trust me on this one.)
(Crossposted at Multi Medium)
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Great post, Eli, thank you.
W00t! The Other Mile High City haz marriagez!
Bien!
You all are commies for sharing bikes, though….
Nice news!
They will have to learn to say Merry Christmas and not use Feliz Navidad!
Where is the Socialist, Marxist, Communist Fascist, Kenyanist Barack HUSSEIN Obama and why isn’t he keeping us safe from these godless brown homosexuals?
Personally I think The Flintstones ought to be banned because they are constantly having a gay ol’ time.
Oh shoot you all missed the memo, the brown homosexuals were here first.
I can hardly wait for the youtube version of O’Reilly’s and Dobbs’ heads blowing off with the idea of Mexican women marrying each other. What pretense is there for them to come to the US then if they are not going to drop a baby on US soil?
Am I the only one who on the anniversary of the vaporization of hundreds of thousands of Japanese to feel offense at associating gay marriage to that event??
say what?
That’s a stretch, Stick.
Yep, considering — if TS had, y’know, bothered to check both the Seminal and Multi Medium postings as well as this one — no references to that event are made. (Besides, for me, August 6 nowadays is the date of the Presidential Daily Briefing that George W. Bush refused to read.)
Except nobody besides you is doing that. The author certainly isn’t.
It’s better to write your own Seminal Diary, than to curse the ELI.
I think the image may be what you’re referring to.
But the title indicates he’s snarkily comparing it to the apocalypse, not the bombings in Japan. And for lots of folks nuclear armeggedon is the ultimate apocalypse, thus the image.
I really don’t think the author was going there.
How are ya today? All well I hope?
Mexico City is something of a progressive oasis – the most pro choice laws anywhere in Central or South America.
… And it has been for quite sometime, yet it seems, fairly unrecognized for such.
Mexico DF Peace March
There’s more if folks are interested …
I, for one, can’t wait for the GOP members of the House and Senate to introduce a bill giving these opposite-marriage-loving Mexicans political asylum because of this.
Eli!!! Um, the photo? It’s so, so graphic! You just crack me up, dude. (I couldn’t help myself — well I could have, but why?)
Thanks, but I can’t actually take credit for it.
(I probably would have just re-used this one)
Oh, you think big, boy. I’ve only experienced that in dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZOKDmorj0
Haha, yeah Eli, all newcomers in the country should tell Bill O’Reilly they love falafel.
Preferably in English…
I’m fairly certain the the Pope’s head exploded re Mexico.
I have no question of Eli’s motives.
I seem to be the only one remembering the 200.000 Japanese incinerated in th the service of securing the right to pursue personal civil rights. I just don’t see explosions as an appropriate metaphor on this particular day.
Crying out for a Seminal diary from someone as concerned as you seem to be that FDL is ignoring it.
Oh God? Teddy’s copying me. (see my #16) *g*
Action is the antidote for dispare. Or, however that’s spelled.)
(Personal OT, glad you’re settling in.)
Your wrong. It’s easy to play Monday Qtr. back 65 rs. on. That bomb was dropped in the context of a vicious World War were we had just lost tens of thousands of marines and Sailors fighting our way toward Japan. We didn’t just amble our way to that place. I lost half my family in that war and I’m offended at your characterization of how we fought it. War is Hell and the Japanese fought it that way. You didn’t want to end up a prisoner of these people I got news for you. The bomb was seen as just another weapon to these people, they didn’t know where it would lead.
I’m not reading 23 the same way you must be reading it.
As someone whose father’s station put him in line to become fodder for the Japanese war machine had the conflict raged on in the Pacific, I too resent the characterization of our use of the atomic weapon. War is hell.
Umm, you too?
Man my reading comp skills are fading as fast as my memory, dammit.
I didn’t see what you guys are resonding to. I’ll try again.
*confused*
Somebody early in the thread decided to assume something that wasn’t intended by the author and derailed the thread as a result. Feel free to ignore it and drag the thread back to topic. :-)
Speaking of which: I should go over to http://columbusgohome.com/ and inform the proprietor of this latest development on the immigration front.
My dad had the destroyer he was on shot out from under him. War sucks and there’s almost never a good reason for it but the Nihonjin of that era were not a bunch of warm and fuzzy pacifists. They firmly believed as a people in their own moral, spiritual and racial superiority. I’m not here to defend the use of atomic weapons, nor to deplore it. The fact is that’s what happens in war: people die. Overwhelmingly civilian people.
I don’t think anyone denigrades your remembering today. We all have issues that are important to us. I could tell you what’s bugging me today, but those issues are mine.
Would you like a nice cup of tea? Maybe take your personals for a nice walk? That’s what I do when I find myself being very offended by something.
You have now engaged in a successful attempt to highjack Eli’s thread.
Happy?
Write your own diary on whatever topic you feel FDL is ignoring; it’s what Seminal is for, and (in case you haven’t noticed) provides a rich source for FDL editors to reach into and front-page when a topic’s been ignored.
Time’s a-wasting.
What we did to the Nihonjin was terrible. What the Nihonjin did to the Xin was atrocious. What the Russians did to the Germans was criminal. What the Germans did to practically everybody was horrific. And that was just one war. If you look back through history, EVERY DAY is the anniversary of some really ugly act of slaughter. I’m not trying to belittle your beliefs or to negate the suffering of the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but I think deploring the use of a pink mushroom cloud is a bit thin skinned.
Not to mention the assault on DOMA by Massachusetts. When resolved, wonder if that could be precedent for overturning Hyde.
The best revenge, is continuing the thread.
Wait a minute. There’s gay Catholics? Steven Colbert did a nice job on the Pope’s new look last night.
One of the things he said was that the Catholic Church is now reaching out the the youth….in public.
A-yep.
Or we could all talk about O’Reilly and falafel.
That would be fun too.
Can this go back to being about gay people and Mexico please?
I’ll start:
I was telling belch about this very post last night. His eyes crinkled up and he said “I know how to say [edited] in Spanish.”
“Really? What is it?” I ask.
He says [edited]
(snicker)
Thank you for sharing that. Made me laugh out loud.
Mexico has gay people?
Oh that’s right, it’s Iran that doesn’t have gay people. I keep getting mixed up.
Belch sounds like he has a wonderful sense of humor. He looked like he really enjoyed it when you re-arranged the bridesmaid’s boobs. :)
Mo Ho? For real?
I will never see Maureen Dowd the same again.
I was late to the previous thread….Has our President made any comments about the Calif. case?
He’s trying to have it both ways again. He says he’s for equal rights for all but against gay marriage. The White House has more waffles than the Waffle House does.
Having visited the Waffle House, I’d say the White House has a greater variety of waffles, though perhaps not as satisfying.
why yes he did – ‘Separate But Equal’
Makes perfect sense coming from our first black President, doesn’t it?
Not.
Sorta like the back of the bus, I guess.
Shall I laugh or cry?
Oh my God, white gays, black gays, and now (scream) brown gays!!!
Imagine that…
.) :)
And, coming soon to a bath house near you, Asian gays!
hehe hehe (best Beavis voice)
you said coming soon..
hehe hehe (best Beavis voice)
Thank you, Kelly. You and I were a minute a part. Close. But, no exploding cigar. Ha. If you know what I mean. heh, heh.
People get weird when things get close to change. No, wait, Look…Haley’s Comet. This issue is the biggest one on the block, for my money. ‘Course, it would help if I had some.
Off topic: The catfood commission is going to hate it but the trustees say Social Security is healthy and solvent, (there’s a surprise). No doubt they’ll spend the weekend constructing a reason why the trustees are obviously wrong.
Ya noes, I tried humor, I tried sincerity. And, then I was going to try food. I’ve got a huge pot of fresh chicken soup, ready. With mygarden fresh tomatoes and bell peppers, okra, onions, rice and chicken. But, it seems there’s another new thread, we’re off to Afganistan, again, so, I’ll just leave a portion on the side of the thread for anyone who’s hungry.
Thanks for answering my question. Please don’t let me disrupt your thread. :-) I think we can all agree on honoring love for between us all..
If Bill O’Reilly inteviews Barack Hussein Obama, does that mean that the Falafel King is talking to the Waffle King??
(couldn’t resist)
Felicitaciones to our primos in Mexico!! Way to go, amigos!
Some might say the Mexico ruling would solve the illegal immigration problem as citizens of Mexico will flood back to Mexico to be part of a more enlightened society.