5:4, of course

[james_davis_nicoll]

Bare majority of US Supreme drags US kicking and screaming into the Century of the Anchovy.

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[onyxlynx]

Anchovy?

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's a Prachettism. His books started off set in the Century of the Fruit Bat, then transitioned to the Century of the Anchovy around AD 2000.

[onyxlynx]

Heh. Someday I must try more Pratchett (hated the first one I read, liked the second).

[recessional]

And with all due respect to Mr de Worde, we really did TRY to lead it gently by the hand on this issue. Multiple times. For over fifty years.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

Ever since Stonewall it's gotten better.

[jwgh]

I wonder how many people will incorporate readings from the decision into their (same or opposite sex) marriage ceremony? The final paragraph of the decision seems made for such use: "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Seriously, anchovy? I would have thought mudskipper came next.

[timill]

No, anchovy. Really: http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Century_of_the_Anchovy

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, if you're going to argue from authority. But mudskippers are much more relevant to our current conditions.

[deor.livejournal.com]

Mudskipper would have been cooler.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

This sort of ruling makes it less likely that socially liberal, but economically conservative, voters will vote Republican for president, as that will make it more likely that the narrow margin will be reversed after SCOTUS changes.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Apparently Scalia, arguing the case of Evil, actually literally brought up the Hippie Menace.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

There's an extensive selection of things wrong with Scalia.

[jwgh]

I spent a reasonable amount of the morning reading news stories, listening to Obama's brief speech on the topic, watching friends' reactions on Facebook, and crying, so now I've moved on to phase two, looking for funny reactions. Regarding the hippie thing, the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim has this:

"'The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality,'" he quoted from the majority opinion before adding, "Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."

HuffPost went to look for the first hippie we could find, per Scalia's instructions. Neil Cousins, a 61-year-old man from Alexandria protesting nuclear weapons outside the White House, said he had come to this very park in the 1970s for pot smoke-ins, but added that there really haven't been hippies around since the Grateful Dead stopped touring. He was nonetheless willing to offer a judgment on Scalia's assertion that marriage abridges rather than expands intimacy. "I've known it to have both reactions," he ruled. "Scalia is a big knucklehead."

I also liked the Onion's article titled 'Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito Suddenly Realize They Will Be Villains In Oscar-Winning Movie One Day.'

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

I'm sure god will be rapturing Christians up to heaven any minute now. It'll be nice to have a thousand years of good times without anyone ranting about sins.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Nah, he'll launch a giant fireball at Armenia. "Armenia?" you ask. Indeed, given how poor God's smiting aim seems to be. For example during Hurricane Katrina one of the areas of New Orleans least effected was where the gay community congregates.

[seawasp]

Wow, two awesomely sane decisions from SCOTUS in a couple of days.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Three, though the third is a little in the weeds.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I don't care if it /is/ just a bare majority, it's a majority!

[wakboth.livejournal.com]

Good news for Americans! Justice, equality and love won pretty thoroughly here. :)

I expect the usual suspects will be apoplectic about this...

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Orson Scott Card is now in the fifth hour of the bender, and he's calling the bartender a Lamanite.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

This is one of the few times that if Card posts a screed on this topic I'll read it, because the schaudenfreude will (at least for me) more than cancel out the noxiousness.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

>...he's calling the bartender a Lamanite.

Congratulations, you've gotten me to google and enlarge my vocabulary.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Ted "No, we don't want him back, Americans, he's yours, deal with it!" Cruz has apparently called this the darkest 24 hours in US history. Yep, worse than Pearl Harbor, 911, the Kennedy and King assassinations etc.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I've seen "6/26 is the new 9/11." Because people getting married is worse than people getting killed I guess?

Or maybe it means that America should invade a third world country. That's always popular in some circles.