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Now that the state of New York has democratically legalized same-sex marriage, we should soon see people marrying multiple underaged goats and box turtles. Oh, and God is going to destroy New York now too. Or so that's what the drooling morons at Free Republic would have us believe. One of the very first comments shows you all you need to know about such people:
Memo to NY: since you've decided to officially become a degenerate fag state, don't expect any help or sympathy from me the next time you have a 9/11. Burn in hell, New York.
Awww. How Jesus-like of you! A few more for your enjoyment:
All I can say to New Yorkers, is if you believe the Bible is the word of god, and if you believe god destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality and more importantly societies acceptance of homosexuality, and you believe God is the same today as he was back then, You might want to consider a move south in the not to distant future. If not...feel free to carry on.......but keep your faggedy blue-state asses and attitudes out of Virginia. We don`t want your kind here.
Brilliant!
So I suppose our only hope is that a single conservative judge will throw this out, like that rump-ranger in California did?
Very nice. On what grounds could it possibly be thrown out? Allowing gay people to marry doesn't violate anyone's rights, obviously. And I'm still trying to figure out what the hell this comment means:
Just as with abortion this perversion will cover every state in no time.Remarkable that few see these two as simply sexual decisions people are making...they are not rights issues as they are deceptively presented as.
They are choices/decisions people make concerning when, and with whom, and how they conduct themselves sexually.....nothing more.
But the homosexuals, and woman who want to be sexually promiscuous, would have us all focus on the "consequences" or 'results' of their choices. Blaming the majority, blaming our laws rather than taking responsibility for their actions and behaviors. Thus the society in general, we the public, becomes their problem rather than they themselves.
And then there's this:
Can we try the secession thing again?
Please do. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Now that the state of New York has democratically legalized same-sex marriage, we should soon see people marrying multiple underaged goats and box turtles.
Actually, what we should be seeing is a surprisingly quick rejection of the whole "states rights" and "will of the people" arguments that these people have been using against gay marriage.
So I suppose our only hope is that a single conservative judge will throw this out...
What? Already?
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...like that rump-ranger in California did?
Stay classy, guys.
Posted by: Chiroptera | June 25, 2011 9:08 AM
I think what people are missing here is that New York has already been punished by God for this degeneracy. Just as God has terrible aim with respect to space, he has a terrible aim with respect to time. 9/11 WAS God's punishment--he was just off a few years. When you think about, it's a rather understandable mistake for an eternal being to make.
Posted by: D'oh! | June 25, 2011 9:18 AM
It is good to know that if I ever begin to have faith in humanity and have hope for the future, all I need to do is visit Free Republic and my cynicism can be quickly restored.
Posted by: Owen | June 25, 2011 9:20 AM
Freeper: Memo to NY: since you've decided to officially become a degenerate fag state, don't expect any help or sympathy from me the next time you have a 9/11. Burn in hell, New York.
What is is about gay marriage that generates such insane vitriol? New York could have passed a law explicitly setting up death panels to kill everyone over 65 and I doubt the comments would be this insane!
Posted by: Chiroptera | June 25, 2011 9:20 AM
I live in NY State and I'm happy about this vote and I have written to my State Senator to thank him for his vote.
"..the next time you have a 9/11.." So, must I assume that this writer does not live in the United States? If so, why should s/he care how New York votes?
Posted by: Ellie | June 25, 2011 9:21 AM
...we should soon see people marrying multiple underaged goats and box turtles
What about hamsters? Are they ok. This isn't about me, you understand. I'm asking for a friend.
Posted by: Alan B. | June 25, 2011 9:44 AM
There is some concern that the wording of the religious exemptions are vague enough that they may lead to discriminatory policies or actions by the religious. That could lead to a judicial decision that the exemptions are unconstitutional. Because of a clause, if the exemptions are struck down so is the law.
I've read the exemptions and although IANAL, it seems like there is wiggle room to legally discriminate in housing and employment if an organization is a non-profit or even supervised by a persons with religious convictions. I've heard varying opinions so i hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Chris aka | June 25, 2011 10:00 AM
As a most reluctant resident of the diaper pail on the Hudson, I wish to remind the writer that every summer, we do burn in hell. Furthermore, every winter, hell freezes over. Such is life in hell.
Posted by: Onkel Bob | June 25, 2011 10:04 AM
Dear New York, thank you for joining us in the present.
Love, Massachusetts.
Posted by: Schmeer | June 25, 2011 10:10 AM
Congratulations New York! (Which I made this image.)
http://i.imgur.com/Woz8B.png
Posted by: Owen | June 25, 2011 10:20 AM
Six down, forty-four to go! Rock on New York.
Posted by: MikeMa | June 25, 2011 10:29 AM
I wonder if those commenters think the Good Samaritan should have minded his own business--oh, wait, because it was Jesus' story, the beaten man represents a Christian, so it was his obligation to help. I wonder they think should have happened if the roles were reversed?
Posted by: tfkreference | June 25, 2011 10:30 AM
Regarding this:
I think it is mumbo-jumbo from a person who heard a lot of verbiage about "personal accountability", has come to believe that every liberal policy must be against it, and is trying to apply it as a magic term to a situation in which he/she is basically told he/she is supposed to be indignant, but doesn't really understand the reason.
Owen:
hilarious picture, mad PS skillz. Bravo.
Posted by: Forbidden Snowflake | June 25, 2011 10:33 AM
“All I can say to New Yorkers, is if you believe the Bible is the word of god, and if you believe god destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality and more importantly societies acceptance of homosexuality, and you believe God is the same today as he was back then”
then we would all be eating kosher and observing God’s Sabbath instead of the pope’s Lord’s Day. And be a lot more charitable to the poor. Oh well, pass the bacon.
Posted by: Bahrfeldt | June 25, 2011 10:36 AM
Owen, that's awesome!
I'm also confused by this. "I blame the majority and the law that I'm attracted to this woman, so I'm going to marry her! That'll show you!" "Damn my unclosable legs! It's your fault, society! ABORTION!"What gets me is how inconceivable it is to these people that two people of the same sex could possibly love each other, how homosexuality is nothing more than a sex act.
The last wedding I went to was two women, and the love for each other was wonderfully evident on their faces. How anyone could deny people that sort of happiness when it doesn't affect them personally is sickening and sad.
Posted by: Tabby Lavalamp | June 25, 2011 10:40 AM
Wasn't New York already a fag state? It has to be right up there with California and Washington.
Posted by: Ace of Sevens | June 25, 2011 11:01 AM
Owen,
Great pic.
I will be posting it at work. Another test of the tolerance in my building. I give it 6 hours before it lands in the trash with the coffee grounds but it will be worth it.
Posted by: MikeMa | June 25, 2011 11:03 AM
Everdently, the the Freepers were hoping NY would be thinking:
"Aiiiiii - GODzilla"
(Although, for international copyright reasons, it isn't)
"Neverheless, we should run as if it is - GODzilla!"
(But it's not)
:D - Dingo
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PS: Good for you NY, living upto Lady Liberty.
Posted by: DingoJack | June 25, 2011 11:06 AM
I was going to react to the freeper comments, but you know what?
It's a great day for New York.
It is somewhat interesting that Republicans from a long time bastion of the extinct to endangered traditional Republican party, upstate New York, made the crucial votes. I wonder if there could someday be some backlash against the Tea Party/religious right domination of the party.
Does anyone here but me actually agree with this?
There were theocratic authoritarian nuts who were trying to take over SC and get it to secede a few years ago. I supported that, but it died out.
If any of these Freep guys want to secede, I'd be interested in reaching across the aisle and making common cause with them on that issue.
I see their dilemma. There's not exactly a Protestant Fundamentalist theocracy they can move to. Uganda has a lot of what they want (also no social programs and so on), but it has a lot of Catholics, and more to the point, the people there are mainly black. Muslim theocracies are Muslim. Where are these guys going to go?
Texas is hardly a good secession target - it's loaded with minorities, immigrants, gays, big corrupt cities, fancy secular universities, and the like. The theocrats have power there, but no matter how f'ed up Texas looks to the rest of us, it's kind of a microcosm of the whole country in some ways.
But what about some counties in Texas? All white counties in other parts of the Former Confederacy? Idaho or parts of Idaho?
I think this secession idea is plausible, and I want to make it clear that I am dead serious and will support anyone from either side of the gay marriage issue. This could be the solution to a dilemma.
Posted by: harold | June 25, 2011 11:10 AM
"...And then there's this:
'Can we try the secession thing again?'
Please do. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. "
aw, c'mon. don't be like that. there's decent, well educated, socially liberal folks here in the south.
and both of us hate shoveling snow.
Posted by: tybee | June 25, 2011 11:12 AM
June 28th will be the 42nd anniversary. - Dingo
Posted by: DingoJack | June 25, 2011 11:12 AM
Fortunately, the righteous States like Arkansas, Tennesee, Alabama, and Mississippi have held firm against this corruption. They, unlike New York, are safe from Heavenly wrath such as that wrought on them by God's Servants in Al Qu'aeda.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding | June 25, 2011 11:43 AM
Oh really?
Missouri and Alabama were recently hit by powerful tornadoes that killed hundreds. At the same time the Mississippi flooded all the way down to Louisiana. This was because two guys held hands in San Francisco. The deity has notoriously bad aim and being a few thousand miles off is normal.
In fact, right now the Sky Fairy is punishing NY state. There are major floods in North Dakota with tens of thousands of refugees in Minot and surrounding areas. There are also major floods from the Missouri river in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska. For an omniscient deity, the xian god isn't very good at reading maps.
Posted by: raven | June 25, 2011 12:04 PM
NY legalization of gay marriage really makes me sad. Every year I'd spend a weekend in the Catskills for a race and it is such a nice change from the post apocalypse hell hole that Connecticut has become - think Mad Max but with Camerys and Accords - since we legalized gay marriage. Truth be told legal same sex marriage is about big a change to society as a minor change to the traffic code. A few couples I know now use the words husband or wife instead of partner that's it.
Posted by: Mr Ed | June 25, 2011 12:06 PM
re: secession
I have mixed feelings about it. A part of me wants to say that a big chunk of living in a democracy is learning to live with others.
But dang it, if South Carolina can't live with us, then another part of me says, "OK, go ahead. That's a chunk of federal money you will no longer get."
Also, what would be the travel situation? Would we allow passportless or visa-free travel from there?
Be interesting to see the exodus of the black population as well, something tells me their previous experience with secession might convince them to go elsewhere.
And what of the US military bases and facilities there?
It's kind of an interesting question, if unrealistic.
Posted by: Jesse | June 25, 2011 12:18 PM
Owen @ # 10 - may I use your admirable artwork, with credit, in a non-profit newsletter (circulation ~5K) in the Gainesville, FL area?
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | June 25, 2011 12:54 PM
I know this isn't the point but it really bothers me when fundamentalists condemn people with the Bible when they clearly don't know what's in the Bible.
Ezekiel 14:49, 50 -- Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; They did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
Who's the sodomite now?
Posted by: Cheryl Overley | June 25, 2011 1:35 PM
Cheryl Overley "Who's the sodomite now?"
Yes, but they were also gay. That's why they raped the daughter and handmaiden. Because there's nothing homorapists love more than pussy.
That is the part that pissed God off. Luckily, that part only effects other people.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | June 25, 2011 1:56 PM
Isn't that the EXACT talking point of the Westboro Baptist Church? You don't adhere to the mindset of our religious interpretation of the bible...so every single one of you must therefore BURN and stuff... Every time one of these jerks opens their mouths I'm even more amazed I spent 18 years a pious idiot when there was such disdain and hatred all around.
Posted by: g_whiz | June 25, 2011 2:39 PM
Is this a joke, or are over-privileged, narcissistic, unjustifiably-entitled-feeling, constantly whining wingnuts so unbelievably hot-house-sheltered, delusional and permanently wretched that they really think that CT is a "post apocalyptic hell hole"? Not because you're oppressed, of course, but because you don't get to oppress other people as much as you'd like to.
Posted by: harold | June 25, 2011 2:41 PM
harold, it's a joke. Take your medication. Now, if you want a place that turned in to a hell hole after gay marriage, try Canada. By law, that's what all the bars are called now. Hell Hole.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | June 25, 2011 2:58 PM
Yes, Modus Operandi. That's way Bryan Fischer thinks gays make the fiercest soldiers. It's because they're going after all that raping and pillaging pussy.
Posted by: Cheryl Overley | June 25, 2011 3:01 PM
Dear New York, thank you for joining us in the present.
Imagine if this were the 1950's. Sheer pandemonium would ensue. Nowadays it's just another news day, pretty much. The only real difference between the culture now and the culture then are jukebox machines and red and white checkered aprons and tablecloths. Now that they are obsolete, gays can enjoy their freedom.
Posted by: 386sx | June 25, 2011 3:05 PM
Yes, but you're cherry-picking. What about the beatitudes? Let me refresh your memory.
*Cursed are are the meek: for they shall possess nothing.
*Cursed are those who mourn: their dead obviously deserved what they got.
*Cursed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: the video makes the police look guilty, but if you saw what those n****s did just before the camera was turned on, you wouldn't feel sorry for him.
*Cursed are the merciful: those bleeding hearts are soft in the head and soft on terrorism.
*Cursed are the clean of heart: the heart doesn't matter, it's what one does with the genitals that counts.
*Cursed are the peacemakers: they are a bunch of America-hating, pinko Muslim lovers.
Posted by: Dr X | June 25, 2011 4:00 PM
Owen @10,
Great picture. I used it, with appropriate credit to you, at my blog.
Posted by: James Hanley | June 25, 2011 4:36 PM
Maybe the red staters will now stop taking New York's money, we pay far more to the federal government than we get; it ends up going to states that can't educate their population because their heads have already been filled with too much Christianist and Fox News crap, and that can't manage to keep their teenage girls from having babies and ruining their economic futures. Last time I checked, I don't think Sixteen and Pregnant and Teen Mom film in New York
Posted by: Liz | June 25, 2011 4:48 PM
Owen @ 10,
Outstanding picture; I got a tear in my eye and a stirring in my loins - the first ever from those two ladies.
Posted by: Michael Heath | June 25, 2011 5:11 PM
Harold;
I'm not the most eloquent but the idea of punk rock soccer moms terrorizing the weak while in search of gas was my riff on gay marriage equals the end of polite society idea espoused by the right.
Posted by: Mr Ed | June 25, 2011 5:24 PM
Owen @ 10,
My prior admiration is insufficient. I truly hope your graphic becomes the iconic representation of what transpired in NY last evening. I can't imagine anything better capturing this moment.
Posted by: Michael Heath | June 25, 2011 5:31 PM
Either I'm misunderstanding people's support of Owen@10, or they're misunderstanding what he posted. Unless Owen is in fact Mirko Ilić Corp., proper attribution for the illustration should probably be directed elsewhere: see e.g. http://www.mirkoilicillo.com/print.html (first row, fourth image).
Nonetheless, I join the crowd in being very happy that this came to pass. Finally, bipartisanism that I can actually support!
Posted by: Kris | June 25, 2011 6:03 PM
To all the folks who are attributing the picture @ 10 to Owen:
was probably meant to be:
The first doesn't make sense, the second does, especially due to Kris' revelation @ 40. One can't be sure, of course...
Posted by: Quantum Mechanic | June 25, 2011 6:49 PM
Kris @ # 40 - Uh-oh, Owen's turn to do some 'splainin'.
Thanks for bringing this up (though, fwiw, when I followed yr link the pic in question was first row, seventh image - Mirko Ilić seems quite prolific today...).
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | June 25, 2011 7:19 PM
This idiocy reminds me of a dinner party I went to in 2010. In attendance were my older relatives who (how we got on this topic, I'm not sure) are against gay marriage, immigration, and anything else perceived as "leftist". My aunt insisted that were "gays" allowed to be married, "that would be the end of it, everything would be ruined" (or something to that effect - I'm paraphrasing). My father noted, "they have been allowed to marry, since 2003." She fell silent. Oh, Alberta.
Posted by: Eleanor | June 25, 2011 8:36 PM
So I suppose our only hope is that a single conservative judge will throw this out...
So am I to understand that the conservative right is looking for an unelected activist judge to over rule the will on the people?
Hmmmm, I seam to remember the GOP ranting about that. I could be wrong though. I mean the GOP is WAY too principled to switch position on something as important as judicial activism.
Posted by: mess | June 25, 2011 10:34 PM
Re: That image.
At least we know now who Lady Liberty was carrying that torch for! :)
Posted by: Spooky | June 25, 2011 10:51 PM
I live in New York; my answering machine shows that the National Organization for Marriage (nom nom nom) called me three times in the last two days with a "survey". Pity I wasn't home to tell them exactly what I thought of them. It may be purely push polling; aside from that, I wonder if they're really going to come up with survey results they can interpret to say that New Yorkers don't support their legislature's action. If they find we're in favor, you can bet they won't mention it.
Posted by: Vasha | June 26, 2011 12:10 AM
[ahem, 2005, not 2003; typo]
Posted by: Eleanor | June 26, 2011 12:27 AM
It may be purely push polling; aside from that, I wonder if they're really going to come up with survey results they can interpret to say that New Yorkers don't support their legislature's action.
They probably just wanted money. If a religious organizations calls you with a poll, they want money. It's a pretty common scam.
Posted by: 386sx | June 26, 2011 2:34 AM
Fundie organizations have been doing that for years. They call you with a "poll", and then harass you for donations.
Posted by: 386sx | June 26, 2011 2:46 AM
Spooky (#45) -
"That torch that I found, has gotta be drowned
Or it soon might explode.
So it's one for my baby, and one more for the road."* - Dingo
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* One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Harlen/Mercer 1943
Posted by: DingoJack | June 26, 2011 4:02 AM
PRB@42: thank you for the counting. I hardly trust myself to assume the 10 fingers/toes thing most days.
My hope is that people (rightly) commend Dave for bringing this illustration to this community, but also that we recognize its origin.
InformationReality wants to be free!Posted by: Kris | June 26, 2011 5:20 AM
Fundie organizations have been doing that for years. They call you with a "poll", and then harass you for donations.
That actually might be coincidental though. Any time there is any contact with fundie organizations whatsoever, they are going to harass you for donations. Get a newsletter.... harass you for donations. Call the "prayer line".... harass you for donations. Probably just a coincidence. I doubt if newsletters and prayer lines are scams set up to harass people for donations. Ha ha I'm kidding... of course they are...
Posted by: 386sx | June 26, 2011 6:16 AM
#46 I live in New York; my answering machine shows that the National Organization for Marriage (nom nom nom) called me three times in the last two days with a "survey".
They've been calling me for several weeks, warning that this is the most important question of our time (you know, not like unemployment, or the huge numbers of dead due to unwarranted warmongering, or...), and asking whether or not I agree that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Each time, I answered with a resounding NO! (occasionally a HELL NO!), at which point the machine thanked me for my time, and hung up. I was tempted to answer 'yes', just to see what transpired, but I simply couldn't bring myself to do it.
In any case, their tactic backfired, at least in my case, since each time they called, I in turn called my local state senator (Steven Saland - one of the key Republican votes), urging him to vote in support of the legislation (which, much to my surprise, he did). Good for him!
Posted by: RayM | June 26, 2011 7:34 AM
I am a american living overseas and all I have to add is good going New York
Posted by: Ex Patriot | June 26, 2011 8:30 AM
What he said.
Posted by: Tualha | June 26, 2011 8:55 AM
What gets me, is that the next time Fred Phelps decides to picket a soldier's funeral, these same people will be condemning them on another thread. The only difference between some of those posters (some, not all) is that Phelps thinks this country had passed the point of no return long ago, while those freepers think we are rapidly approaching it. At what point do they think we will have passed that threshold? Because according to their own rhetoric, at that point they should join Fred Phelps, but they never will.
Posted by: Jim | June 26, 2011 9:25 AM
I'm very very sorry. I did not mean to say I made that image. I meant to say, "Wish" I made the image.
I have no excuse, again, I am very sorry.
Posted by: Owen | June 26, 2011 10:00 AM
Tybee @20
you owe me a Mountain Dew cuz you made me snork it out my nose laughing.
Posted by: skmarshall | June 26, 2011 11:00 AM
!!
Posted by: Scott Hanley | June 26, 2011 11:59 AM
These Freepers DO know it's not compulsory, right?
Posted by: Scaryduck | June 26, 2011 12:47 PM
Scaryduck @ #60:
Of course, one would have to be spectacularly clueless to think...oh wait, I see where you going. Hey, if there is really a considerable subset of right-wingers who are unaware of that little detail, I have a great business idea: "Closed Hearts" - the dating site for bigots looking for other bigots for their obligatory same-sex marriage. Every subscription comes with a free .pdf copy of "Less Joy of Frequent Anal Sex".
Posted by: Phillip IV | June 26, 2011 1:44 PM
@ Michael Heath #39 - it already has:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i8nwu/congratulations_new_york/
Posted by: DifferentFrogs | June 26, 2011 6:17 PM
Owen, no big deal. It seemed obvious to me that it was a typo and you meant "wish."
Posted by: Dr X | June 26, 2011 6:31 PM
But dang it, if South Carolina can't live with us, then another part of me says, "OK, go ahead. That's a chunk of federal money you will no longer get."
Not to mention that a country with a terrifying nuclear arsenal would suddenly have several million fewer enfranchised lunatics.
Honestly, go for it.
Posted by: Zero | June 26, 2011 7:13 PM
Modus Operendi -
Turns out it was. I learned that from the person to whom I directed the question, however.
It's an example of Poe's law. The original comment attempted to satire or parody right wing extremism, because in the commenter's mind, it is obvious that CT is not a post-apocalyptic hell hole.
However, the satire is, in fact, not easily distinguishable from the illustrated freeper ravings (which are characteristic of may thousands of such comments on freep every day).
I strongly stand by my observation that there are many -
"over-privileged, narcissistic, unjustifiably-entitled-feeling, constantly whining wingnuts"
Who are -
"unbelievably hot-house-sheltered, delusional and permanently wretched".
People who are not wingnuts may sometimes have these characteristics as well, of course.
If you have some reason for not liking those observations, that's your issue.
I generally try to be persuasive and non-insulting, but there is a level of bigotry and hypocrisy which deserves strong language.
Posted by: harold | June 26, 2011 7:46 PM
Harold, I see a grumpygus who needs a hug.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | June 26, 2011 8:53 PM
You are correct. Freepers make me grumpy. (Among other things.)
Posted by: harold | June 27, 2011 9:37 AM
It's true, since same sex marriage passed, our houses have continued to increase in value, people have jobs and our dollar is worth more than the US dollar.
Posted by: Jolo5309 | June 27, 2011 10:41 AM
Maybe we should ban redneck marriage instead.
Posted by: BeerMagnet | June 29, 2011 5:57 PM
good thanks
Posted by: ek gelir | July 23, 2011 8:19 AM