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Dan8267
2013 Jul 1, 4:37pm
so, by your own example, there is no gay right to marry??
The question is whether or not same sex marriage should be a right. And the answer is a definitive yes according to both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia. The legal question has been answered.
Only bigots claim there is any legal ambiguity, and those bigots will look like fools a mere 20 years from now just like anyone claiming that interracial marriage should be illegal looks like a fool today.
Bap33
2013 Jul 2, 11:43am
an idiot is anyone that values deviant coupling as equal to needful coupling. And that value is where the Gov based the tax breaks. Right?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/teenager-justin-carter-facebook-comment-jail_n_3512025.html
An 18-year-old makes an obviously sarcastic comment on Facebook, is imprisoned for over a year, and faces up to eight years in prison because Texas prosecutors are fucking retarded.
Yes, a real death threat or threat of a terrorist attack should be taken seriously. But taking something seriously means distinguishing between sarcasm and the real thing. Prosecuting this person for an obviously snarky comment is exactly not taking the investigation seriously.
In addition to imprisoning an innocent person, this also distracts from pursuing legitimate terrorist leads. Such witch hunts and security theater also invalidates law enforcement's legitimacy, ruins its reputation, and breaks the public trust.
I'm not saying the teen shouldn't have been investigated. I'm saying the investigation should have shown that there was no threat. Failing to do that undermines any credibility in law enforcement or state prosecutors in dealing with terrorism.