I expect SCOTUS to kick the can down the road as long as it can get away with it. Do I want that, or do I want them to hear the case and offer an opinion? I'm torn. A win means legal parity, yes, and of course it would be better and more just than a loss, but a win might have more dire long-term problems of crystalizing minority opposition than the gradual (but lately reallly rapid) state-by-s Forum: Recovery Board
The Christians who decided how to put together and canonize the NT saw fit to keep Paul's epistles in the mix, so Christians who take the Church's canonization process as legit and NT as authoritative oughtn't be particularly persuaded by the Paul-bashing, however much I might agree with it (I'm not Christian).
Instead, Paul's condemnation of arsenokoitai and malakoi ("s___ites" and Forum: Recovery Board
I'm persuaded SCOTUS would deny cert. If they can stay out of the debate and let the circuit courts (and lower) settle the matter, I think they'd prefer it. Their silence might also have the benefit of not exacerbating pushback from the shrinking minority opinion which opposes SSM. Forum: Recovery Board
mobegone Wrote:
>If the women of Westboro Baptist
> Church complained that they didn't get an equal
> voice in which funerals and LGBT organizations to
> target and harass, would you support their push to
> get that "right"? If the women in a white
> supremacist group complained that they didn't get
> an equal voice in the day-to-day operations of
> th Forum: Recovery Board
I think of WI as 20th state, not 27, since 7 are pending stays at the moment (UT, OK, VA, TX, AK, ID). If all those go forward pro- same-sex marriage, that would put about 62% of US population in marriage-equality states. Forum: Recovery Board
Any candidates for nice-looking temples out there? I toured the one by San Diego before it was sanctified (1993?) and it seemed okay in a modern-hotel kind of way. Or is my memory being overly kind? Forum: Recovery Board