WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

Thinking about running another Battledome, but every time the tally scoring and voting phase drags on or becomes damn hard to keep track of.

I should go back through and figure out all the winners. They were supposed to come with RMN trophies! Guess that's what I'll do before pouncing on any new events.

Edit: if anyone has ideas for a better voting system, I am all ears.

@Dudes They've implemented the polls on RMN since the last time you had a battle dome. Maybe you could make a different topic for each round? That'd end up kind of spammy but if you informed kentona/the other mods I don't think anybody would have a problem with it.

Perhaps a better solution could be using the strawpoll website, though I'm not completely sure of its limitations.


http://strawpoll.me/

I'm pretty sure there used to be a link to status history in the drop-down box for the community tab above.

It's not there now, so I think that may have been what you used.

author=Adon237
i am RMN's eyesore

Don't speak that way, Adon! We can't all be Fei Long. We love you too.

Why would anyone crucify you over saying that?

Test http://strawpoll.me/1991521

We need to break the image of 'traditional family'. I mean, how old does it have to be to be counted as traditional. My mother was raised by her gay mother, for example, who is almost in her 70s. Isn't that long enough to count as 'traditional'? I wonder what the oldest gay-raised family is and whether it'd be long enough to break the idea that 'traditional' means one of every kind.

I mean, if Grandparents can raise their children's children and adopted children can be raised by parents that aren't their biological ones since forever (seriously, Japan/China and the surrounds have had the tradition of adoption since before there was a United States - hell, since before there was a British Empire), then why is a 'traditional family' always portrayed as biological father/mother/daughter/son? Fuck that noise. I mean, if they're judging by the past they might as well paint it as only-one-race families as 'traditional' as well, which we all know is bullshit (by all I discount those who are bigoted assholes).


Sorry, I get cranky around 2am-ish. I should be sleeping but I cannot so crank away I shall.

With somebody like SCOTUS Justice Scalia as your wingman it'll take more than 'traditional marriage' to knock out same sex marriage!

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Idaho on Tuesday joined the growing list of jurists who have embraced the words of Supreme Court marriage equality opponent Justice Antonin Scalia while striking down a state ban on same-sex marriage.

In declaring Idaho's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional on Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale name-checked Scalia's dissent in the 2003 decision Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down an anti-sodomy law.

Scalia at the time was trying to warn that the court's decision against an anti-sodomy law would call into question laws based on moral choices, like same-sex marriage (and, he wrote, bigamy, adult incest and prostitution). He wrote that "'preserving the traditional institution of marriage’ is just a kinder way of describing the State’s moral disapproval of same-sex couples."

Dale cited that Scalia quote in her opinion on Tuesday, using the conservative justice's words to undermine Idaho's argument that the law was about preserving traditional civil marriage as an institution, and that any discriminatory effects of the law were incidental.

"Although the Court finds Idaho’s Marriage Laws were motivated, in part, by important governmental interests, their history demonstrates that moral disapproval of homosexuality was an underlying, animating factor," Dale wrote. As was the case with the federal Defense of Marriage Act, struck down by the Supreme Court last year, the practical effect of Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban "is 'to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma' on a class of people based solely on their sexual orientation," Dale wrote.

Dale joined federal judges in Utah, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma and Michigan in citing Scalia's dissent in the 2003 Lawrence case, or his raging dissent in the DOMA case, in striking down state gay marriage bans.

(EM)
If Oklahoma got same sex marriage bans struck down Illinois ain't got shit.

author=Liberty
We need to break the image of 'traditional family'. I mean, how old does it have to be to be counted as traditional.

Hey this is AMERICA please remember:

(image is quite a bit out of date, probably a decade, but I think it conveys my point anyways)

Hey, but at least Australia doesn't have the same issue, right? Right?


Oh, right, Fuck-face Abbot... nevermind.

I did a bit more reading and Utah's been appealing the repeal of their same sex marriage ban to the point that the 10th Circuit Court upheld the repeal of the ban. The 10th Circuit is right before the SCOTUS. The article I read has Utah thinking about taking it to SCOTUS or asking the 10th circuit to review their decision but I'd bet it's going to the top which is always a bucket of fun. Roberts was the swing vote that took out a key part of DOMA (which e: as a result of striking that part out /e: gave any wed couple full benefits of being wed as long as their wedding is legal in the state they were wed) so I wouldn't be surprised if it comes down to him again and determining if same sex marriage bans are unconstitutional or otherwise (assuming they hear the case, they can always defer it afaik).

Here's the article on the Utah same sex marriage ban repeal being upheld by the 10th circuit court and my refresher on the results of the DOMA repeal.

e: whoa I totally said the exact opposite of what I meant, fixed it