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http://samuel-warde.com/2015/06/right-wing-pundit-millions-will-flee-america-calls-secession-gay-marriage/Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily, the one stop shop for right-wing lunacy, provided the latest sample of secessionist whining when he sent out an all-points bulletin to governors last week suggesting that they secede from the union if SCOTUS rules against state bans of same-sex marriage.
As is usually the case with literary works such as these, it is ripe with baseless claims, misinterpretations of all referenced texts and void of reason, logic, fact, and common sense. It is one more self-appointed pundit prone to bloviation and nonsense....
Farahs not the first guy to come up with the idea of secession. Every time some wing nut doesnt like something, they start threatening to secede. Furthermore, should the Supreme Court strike down state bans on same-sex marriage it wouldnt mean that same-sex marriage is a right. It would mean that SCOTUS would have ruled that all people, including the LGBT community are deemed equal in the eyes of the court, are entitled to civil liberties, and therefore able to marry. It would be American.
Don't let the doorknob hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
riversedge
(70,475 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)Marriage equality there.
Will they go to England?
Marriage Equality there.
Will they go to New Zealand?
Marriage Equality there.
They could go to Saudia Arabia. They could go to Afghanistan. They could go to Iran. Those countries don't have marriage equality. I'm all for sending these folks there.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Travel Eye for the Homophobe Guy
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Go. Create your jesusland. I feel sorry for the good people trapped in jackass land. Perhaps we can offer them humanitarian refugee relocation assistance.
frylock
(34,825 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Jebus is going to rapture them to wherever they're going!
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Most of the rest of the world with the exception of the middle east and maybe Russia and China is pretty liberal in this area.
But who am I to stand in the way of these moral bigots.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)or self centered asshole, please leave sooner than later!
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)They don't get to take American land with them, however.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)relocation for the people initally living in that state.
Also admit DC or Puerto Rico as a state so we still have 50.
Oh and build a giant fence around it. Don't want any illegal aliens for dipshitistan sneaking back in.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)So they have a two percent chance of getting California?!
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)this.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)maybe crossing a couple of state lines (Four Corners region?), and draw a line around it like an Indian reservation.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Went from Prescott to Vegas by car last January and there is more nothing there than any place but interstellar space.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)That puts them right near Cliven Bundy and the gang.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)cactus are probably as nuts as they are, given how, er, odd, AZ's political landscape is. they can all blast away with their shootin' irons and not hit a damn thing except maybe each other.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)obviously.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Get yer boots scootin' down the road already.
Coventina
(27,227 posts)Buncha blowhards.
on edit: spelling.
safeinOhio
(32,763 posts)LGBT laws make it illegal
They are free to go there, just don't put this country on the list. Not good company
http://www.globalequality.org/component/content/article/166
mnhtnbb
(31,421 posts)Most of the rest of it, not so much.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)so that the rest of the country can move forward.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,421 posts)We could sure stand to get rid of several hundred thousand of these bigots from North Carolina.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)They were all, admittedly, liberals. Sounds like it would be a wonderful state if you could chase the nuts out. Great food, great basketball, ocean views....
randys1
(16,286 posts)fence off Wyoming, put them all in there, give them unlimited meth and booze and guns and let them fight it out
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Okay, a small slice of it is in Montana.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Just sayin'
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Wyoming is too beautiful.
How about a shifting ice sheet in Antarctica? They can have that.
randys1
(16,286 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)keep the scenic parts.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Are Social Security Payments and Medicare/Medicaid benefits portable outside of the U.S. ... If not, I suspect the vast majority of those threatening to secede won't be going anywhere.
Second thought ...
If millions go, just think about the economy ... unemployment will drop to near zero, as people will fill the newly vacated positions and Red states (where these folks seem to congregate) will become purplish, if not Blue, meaning crazy fiscal and social policies will become less crazy.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)whole towns in Mexico are now mostly composed of gringo retirees. As for Medicare, I suspect that the health care wherever they may end up is just as good.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I thought about that after I posted. I have a buddy that is living pretty well in an "American Hamlet" in Costa Rica on his SS check and they just built a medical clinic/hospital just outside the gates.
But he says he doesn't know how much longer he'll be living there because, true to American tradition ... they treat the people they surplanted like crap, and therefore, are not well liked.
whathehell
(29,113 posts)I have no particular plans, but the right wing, anti-science oligarchic direction this country has been going in
is scaring me.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)can you imagine if all the homophobes fled the country!!!
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)You know, like Yemen or Iran?
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Somalia meets the basic criterion of not recognizing same-sex marriage. It goes the extra mile of criminalizing sexual intercourse with a person of the same sex (penalty: up to three years' imprisonment).
On top of all that, its long civil war left it with little to no functioning government, and hence no burdensome left-wing policies. (I'm guessing that, in the U.S., there's a strong correlation between homophobes and opponents of the safety net, so this should be a plus for them.) It's true that Somalia is starting to recover and is now only second on the Fragile States Index (trailing South Sudan), but it's still pretty far from the reach of any of those damn libruls.