Hey, you guys. Remember when Tom Cruise made a movie about a government bureaucracy that allowed police in the future to arrest murderers BEFORE they committed any actual murders, based entirely on the “psychic impressions” of three weird bald folks floating in a tank? Remember that? Wasn’t that cool?
Tom Cruise ain’t got a thing on the Supreme Court of the United States! SCOTUS is now making Constitutional rulings based on FUTURE EVENTS THAT HAVEN’T EVEN HAPPENED YET! I am NOT making this up.
There’s this woman in Colorado, Lorie Smith, who is right now being told that IN THE FUTURE she’ll be forced to design wedding websites for some icky gay folks who will IN THE FUTURE want to get gay married. And SCOTUS has decided that she shouldn’t be forced against her will IN THE FUTURE to do this thing that she hasn’t been asked by any actual real person to do…YET.
In her defense, Lorie Smith has said she was contacted THE DAY AFTER SHE FILED HER LAWSUIT by a guy named Stewart who was totally gay and he told her, that he and Mike (also totally gay) “…are getting married early next year and would love some design work done for our invites, placenames etc. We might also stretch to a website.” But on account of her firmly held religious Christian beliefs, Ms. Smith firmly told totally gay Stewart that she would firmly NOT design any wedding website for icky gay people when they ask her to IN THE FUTURE.
Sure, IN THE PRESENT Stewart claims he’s not gay at all, and that he’s been married to a woman for like 15 years, and that he’s never asked Ms. Smith for a wedding website celebrating his icky gay marriage to this Mike person who he doesn’t even know…YET. But obviously, IN THE FUTURE Stewart will discover he’s actually completely gay and will fall in love with Mike (also gay) and they’ll decided to get icky gay married and will IN THE FUTURE ask Lorie Smith to make them a website.
But now she won’t have to do that, because Minority Report SCOTUS has consulted those bald folks in the pool and they said “Nuh uh.”
Ain’t science great? Unless, you’re Stewart and Mike, who won’t get to have a Lorie Smith designed website for their icky gay wedding. Also, tough beans for the current Mrs. Stewart, who’s gonna get stone dumped at some point, poor thing.
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And this is another example of why voting matters. Mr Trump was able to place those bigoted (nicest word I can think of on a Sunday Morning) individuals on the Supreme Court.
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There are things Democrats could do to restore balance and/or integrity to the Court, but they don’t have the cojones to do them. It pisses me off.
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Right. It pisses me off as well!
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“Is this….now?”
– Agatha, one of three Pre-Cogs
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Reblogged this on Pearlie Mae, Mermaid.
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I’m wondering where Lorie Smith found the money to keep a hypothetical court case advancing for seven years all the way to the Supreme Court. The Alliance Defending Freedom, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is truly frightening. This is the group financing this case.
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Oh, I’m confident it never cost her a penny. But you have to wonder at the level of hate and fear that compels right-wing extremists to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to legitimize their hate and fear.
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And to have it verified by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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The Alliance Subverting Freedom stokes again.
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Phillip K. Dick started it.
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It’s amazing…and more than a wee bit sad…that so many fans of the work of Phillip K. Dick have never heard of him.
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