A Nation of Laws

It was confirmed again this morning – as all too often seems to be needed – that we are still a nation of laws; governed by such and not by some preacher's notion of how he thinks your life should be lived.

As usual in America, the Religious Right continues to push its agenda on the rest of us, so you can be sure that they are goddam mad at the Supreme Court's decision this morning to declare marriage equality for all. Jesus. These people have such a long tradition of infringing on the rights of others and now they're upset because they feel that their "religious liberty" is threatened? What a joke. Maybe their bullying ways have morphed into paranoia. "Don't infringe on my freedoms," they say? Hey, no problem!

You can sure bet that churches across this country will be hotbeds of hatred come Sunday. And that's okay, proving once again that the idea of having an opinion – the foundation of our democracy – is alive and well in our nation. Unfortunately, there's also another line of thinking that continues to be alive and well – the idea, oozing from the Right, that one American can tell another how to live their life; that I can tell you, if I so please, who you can love, who you can marry, who you can fuck.

The ones usually issuing such dictates are the Christian Right – the very bunch who typically align themselves with the political party whose mantra is "leave me alone and let me live my life my way." Such hypocrisy is something we've become used to from these assholes.

After the same-sex marriage ruling today, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed concern with "this court's threat to American democracy." This from the guy who gave us Citizens United, which essentially declared that elections in our fair democracy can be bought and sold by the highest bidder who, in truth, has zero care or concern whatsoever for the average American.

Of course, the Republican candidates for president weighed in and for the most part agreed that regulation is a no-no in the boardroom but fine in the bedroom. "I'm gonna tell you who you can marry and how to manage your own bodies, but leave my old smoky factory alone!" Funny that Jeb Bush, of all people, "guided by … faith," believes in "traditional marriage."

Funny because Bush married out of his faith and out of his race.

One of the lead nut jobs, Mike Huckabee, had an interesting take, invoking British imperialism of the 18^th Century; the precise era of government rule to which he would have us revert; a time in which we were dictated to by a monarch who ruled by religion and not by law. And Huckabee has decided that since Obama opposed gay marriage until 2012, "he was either lying in 2008 or he's lying now." Heaven forbid that Obama – or anyone – might change his or her mind, or even evolve.

Thankfully, we have, indeed, evolved as a nation with the high court's confirmation that marriage is a legal act and not a religious one – by law.