Yes!!!!

What's that, where they force low income housing on richie rich neighborhoods?

 

Well, it's more that the Fair Housing Act isn't limited to preventing just overt racism, but also doesn't allow "disparate impact"--policies that hurt minorities more than white folk, even if the policy isn't directly aimed at harming the brown fellas. Statistical analyses can be valid evidence that a policy is damaging, it's not necessary to prove racist intent. It's a pretty big deal, since after the Fair Housing Act was put in place to block purposeful discrimination, indirect policies have been employed since then to create segregated neighborhoods in many cities.

 

So yeah, it's what I thought.

 

What you thought is definitely a part of it, but not the entirety of it.

 

Apple prides (no pun intended) themselves on having the biggest Pride contingent - it was a parade in itself! I was watching from Genentech suite, and got handed a card for one free song in iTunes. Have to figure out which one to get. Shot 5 rolls of film (yes, still use it).

 

A girl I knew in high school posted some bullshit article on facebook from a Christian website. Essentially the message was "they'll get theirs."

I seriously can't stand some of these people. If you're going to be a Christian, GREAT, be a fucking Christian. But A) don't try to make the US into a theocracy and quit pretending like you follow the letter of the law in the Bible because it specifically says not to judge others, or they shall be judged. That's all these assholes are doing.

 

I'm living in Walla Wall, a huge seventh-day Adventist population, and yesterday I got to speak to a local pastor about the ruling. He is a younger guy, about 35, so perhaps that plays a role in his personal view, but he didn't care about the ruling. He said his church wouldn't perform the marriages, but that he would be fine if they did. He then said "being gay is so far down the list of things that matter".

I was surprised, but he seemed very tolerant. I think we often lump groups together based on their most vocal components. So the huckabees of the nation end up defining what religious people believe when that's just a vocal sliver. Even of those who don't think gays should be able to marry, most of them don't care that much, and aren't going to protest or scream about the change. But calm doesn't make news.

 

I'm definitely not saying all Christians are like that. There are churches in downtown that perform marriages for gay couples. I just can't stand these vocal people who make it sound like the world is going to end because a couple dudes got married.

 

unless it has to do with the portland trailblazers, all celebrations and protests annoy the shit out of me.

 

Yeah, this is a decent Christian take on the recent Supreme Court decisions. Essentially an appeal that Christians follow Christ's example.

 

I went to Jesuit HS. Most of the school was pretty friendly to alternative lifestyles overall.

 

I see crazy ranting people on TV, but in my actual life, at work, school and in daily routines, I just don't see these nasty asses. I'm sure they exist, but not in my circles.

 

I was in Vegas and there were some people from Vancouver WA near us in line at one of the night clubs, a little older. Some pretty obviously gay dude walked by and one of them made a kind of offensive remark. I think its mostly these suburban/midwestern types that think like this since they're so isolated from interacting with people.

 

Congrats to 5/9ths of SCOTUS for taking the rare right stand on the side of personal liberty. The reasoning behind their ruling will also have a domino effect which will reaffirm some other rights and personal liberties that have been under attack in the last 50 years. Most importantly all gun ownership/carry restrictions enacted at a local or state level are pretty much in the dumper. TSA is also going to get pushed around a bit on the ways they restrict travel. This also opens up new ground to plow against Obamacare's mandated participation, and the government's intrusion and wiretapping into our personal lives.

But fuck Apple pride. Apple is a shameful organization owned by shameful people. Many large corporations like Apple deliberately discriminate against heterosexuals in their hiring to avoid costly perks such as maternity and family leave, higher insurance costs..., that gays don't take advantage of nearly as much. And then they get great PR for NOT discriminating? They've dodged enough taxes to house ALL the homeless in America. This is just one more of their accountant's tricks.

Corporations are not people, they are not nice to people, they do not have a heart and a conscience.

They are slavery incarnate.

 

This is pretty funny.

http://gawker.com/cnn-mistakes-isis-style-dildo-flag-at-pride-parade-for-1714409153

CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag

In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.
“If you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic,” CNN’s Lucy Pawle admits. “In fact, it looks like it could be gobbledegook. But it’s very distinctively the ISIS flag.” Heh.

 

The concept of marriage shouldn't be a government institution at all. There should be zero financial advantages of getting married, heterosexual, homosexual, whatever. At least there will be more loopholes to exploit. I'm talking about pension benefits for single persons that have no life partner or people to give it to.

The government also should not restrict marriage to only two persons if they are regulating it. Who are they to say if three people can love each other.

 

I can't wait for the polygamy debate to begin.