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Looks like our judge is quite the bigot!
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/31/vinson-frc/
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/31/vinson-frc/
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But a closer read of his analysis reveals something peculiar. In fact, as Vinson himself admits in Footnote 27 (on pg. 65), he arrived at this conclusion by “borrow[ing] heavily from one of the amicus briefs filed in the case for it quite cogently and effectively sets forth the applicable standard and governing analysis of severability (doc. 123).” That brief was filed by the Family Research Council, which has been branded as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
“The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as ‘the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,’ but its real specialty is defaming gays and lesbians,” SPLC says. Indeed, so-called FRC “experts” (who most recently lobbied to preserve Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have argued that “gaining access to children” “has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement” and claimed that “
“The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as ‘the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,’ but its real specialty is defaming gays and lesbians,” SPLC says. Indeed, so-called FRC “experts” (who most recently lobbied to preserve Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have argued that “gaining access to children” “has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement” and claimed that “
- ne of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets of a new sexual order.” FRC President Tony Perkins has even described pedophilia as a “homosexual problem.”
I liked his shout out to the tea party...
if it wasn't for 'activist' judges, the GOP wouldn't have any judges at all would they? Funny how they don't seem to mind those activist right now..
it's messed up that even in our courts this comes down to what your political upbringing is.. 2 dem judges allowed it, 2 rep judges denied it... looks like it's going to the supreme court and that will split 4/4 with Kennedy being the swing vote.
MSNBC made a great point last night.. 60 some-odd million voters,150+ house of reps members,60 senators all democratically voted this into law and it still comes down to one man who wasn't elected..
and yet we want to tell every else to become a 'democracy'..
yeah sure.I love how some people would have this gov't force a woman or little girl to carry the offspring of the man who raped her.. be it her father,brother,uncle.. or stranger.. but can't stand to have the gov't make people pay their own way in life.. it is a bizarre-o world indeed when the GOP is for free-gov't tit-sucking welfare..
there are 2 more great ironies here..
one, the mandate was never part of the original plan. the dems were against it. (even this judge noted Obama's wavering of it, which is odd in itself, what does a candidate's campaign rhetoric have to do with any legal decision, but thanks for the precedent mr.activist judge, I'm sure that will come in handy in the future).. anyway, the mandate was added in because it's GOP idea, and was a way to get GOP support. There is no getting something for nothing, no 'welfare queen' sucking off the system, Romney did it, Dole asked for it, it's a creation of the other side and was given to them as a peace offering (like there is any compromise with the fundamentalist GOP'er).. and yet, it could be it's undoing.. how ironic
the other is.. if just this part(the mandate) is stricken then we'll undoubtedly get that 'public option'.. with no one being made to buy insurance AND still having to cover pre-existing conditions.. insurance companies will go bankrupt because everyone will just drop their coverage until they are sick.. and they(insurance companies) won't have the money to cover them(the sick). So when they go belly up, that will force the gov't to come in a cover the costs..
whoo hoo.. point scored for Obama-medicare-for-all.. Thanks GOP!
and I'll add moo here. I'd kinda like to see the days and weeks after the supreme's renounce this law as unconstitutional.. image that meltdown.. kids being booted off parents plan,cancer babies being booted off because they had that cancer in the womb and that's preexisting as you know, all pre-existing patients being kicked off, business' canceling plans because no more tax credit,premiums rising overnight and every single person who in any way benefited from the law being billed for the coverage that they had that poor,defenseless insurance company paid for "unconstitutionally'..
ahhh yes.. talk about getting medicare-for-all in about a minute.... and this could happen during the 2012 campaign season.. HA! Both sides would have to deal with that issue and both would 'out medicare-for-all' each other.. if this was from the GOP I'd say it was a great plan.. but since it's from the Dems and they couldn't 'plan' their way out of a paper bag.. I'll just say the GOP should remember that sometimes they get just exactly what they ask for but most times you're not always happy with what you got.
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