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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:14 AM Jul 2015

Why the GOP has the First Amendment upside down

National Memo

Nothing in the Supreme Court ruling legitimizing gay marriage changes anyone’s ability to freely practice their religion. It’s about marriage as a secular legal institution: two Americans entering into a contract with each other. Period. Why can’t the GOP get that?

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Why the GOP has the First Amendment upside down (Original Post) Panich52 Jul 2015 OP

The GOP does not care about the reality of the ruling Gothmog Jul 2015 #1

The repugs can't tell the difference between yeoman6987 Jul 2015 #2

Gothmog

(145,894 posts)

1. The GOP does not care about the reality of the ruling

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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:50 AM

Jul 2015

The GOP is trying to inflame its base

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

2. The repugs can't tell the difference between

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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:21 PM

Jul 2015

A clerk in an office building who hands out licenses all day and a priest in the Catholic Church performing marriages. The one is a government employee who should do their job. The other does not have to perform marriages at all if they don't want to. Huge difference that the repugs don't get. It is weird to me how the repugs are trying to message this.

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