styckx: DaShredda: I'm reading Free Republic laughing my ass off.

These people think this is a sign of the end times. LAWL

Yep.. They are seriously losing their shiat.. It's embarrassing to normal religious folks who honestly don't give a shiat and don't sit and play wordsmith with bible verses to make them out to say something they actually don't.

Oh lawd, I just started reading the Freep thread and I may never get out the door tonight. Not only are they freaking out, they're getting trolled. And they're arguing about whether this means that 9/11 was all New Yorkers' fault or whether they deserve a second 9/11. (Yes, an argument means there are Freepers with a shred of decency arguing against terror attacks on New York.) That and the Revelation quotes and discussion of the end times makes this a Freep vintage worth savouring.

Samples:

Not to worry, Jesus is taking notes, so to speak.

This is the most important thing Jesus has to do. He's not going to get to work punishing mass rapists in Congo. He is going to make sure everyone who is nice to gays faces the consequences, because that's what being Jesus is all ABOUT.

Concrete, filth, crime and now this. More than enough reason to never again visit the Empire state.

Real Americans build with straw bricks like in the Bible. Concrete is a horrible and depraved building material.

Well, frankly, I hope every Senator who voted for this depravity goes home, eats a good meal, gets a good night's sleep, and then wakes up with a debilitating stroke that makes the rest of their lives a long, miserable, unending hell. That's exactly what these pieces of human garbage deserve.

Someone sat down at their computer and actually typed that out! All because some people they don't even know can get married.

Egads, even the Empire State Building is celebrating evil with rainbow lights tonight.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20

Mmmm... bittersweet chocolate.

styckx: Foxnews is hilarious

On the frontpage

In the actual article.

LOLWUT ???

No, Fox is correct. He said the same legal rights, he didn't say he favoured gay marriage. In theory (although rarely in practice) that could mean civil unions that conferred the same legal rights. In other words, separate but equal.

Obama is tiptoeing around being pro-gay marriage. He wants leftists to know that he's not horribly anti-gay (and it's true, he isn't at all), but he doesn't want to scare Middle America by suggesting gays get the M word. And Obama plays the long game. I wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly had some kind of moral revelation in December 2014 and decided to favour full gay marriage, particularly if the Democrats control the House and Senate.

Farker T: bobbette: jekostas: Cpl.D: shower_in_my_socks: jvl: I had really hoped California would go first, but a win is a win!

The redneck and Catholic counties farked us over in Cali. NY just opened the floodgates, though. When the world doesn't end, there'll be little argument left to make.

So did Utah. Were you aware that the Mormons poured millions into campaigning against equality?

Yep, and based on the way current legal decisions have been going it's going to be for naught.

They wasted their money working exhaustively for a temporary setback against gay peoples' legal rights.

There are more gays in the US than Mormons... in fact there are more Lady Gaga twitter followers than Mormons.


That may be so, but numbers don't count as much as dollars, and the Mormon church has plenty, and knows how to play politics.

Not to worry though, the Mormons god has a long history of subordinating His Will to suit the political changes in society. Expect a "revelation" from the prophet when the majority of states start accepting gay marriage.

Hmm, it would be interesting to see who has outspent whom here, but if I recall correctly the campaign donations for Prop 8 were almost even - although the Mormons spent far more on unreported "church related activities" like bussing their supporters into California.

/Gaga's been decent at playing politics too, although she doesn't organize her own doorknockers and signs, she just sends all her supporters to HRC. The Mormons are definitely losing the race with Gaga in terms of cultural production. I guarantee "Born Ex-Gay" is not going to take off.