[QUOTE=kladner;358850]The Senate passing ENDA is an encouraging step, but the road is long. This iteration will never see the light of day in the House of Reps.[/QUOTE]

It's procedurally invalid, since it includes spending for enforcement and such bills must originate in the House. So even if it were to pass (hard to imagine) it would still get a blue slip.

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;358949]It's procedurally invalid, since it includes spending for enforcement and such bills must originate in the House. So even if it were to pass (hard to imagine) it would still get a blue slip.[/QUOTE]

Article 1 section 7 requires that bills that raise revenue start in the House, there is no requirement about bills that spend money starting in the house.

This probably belongs in the WTF?? thread
 

[url]http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/09/15/nigerian-post-graduate-student-uses-elementary-school-science-to-prove-homosexuality-is-impossible/[/url]

[QUOTE]A Nigerian post-graduate student at the University of Lagos in Nigeria has allegedly conducted some supposedly groundbreaking research to prove, without a doubt, that marriage equality is not only wrong, but also physically impossible…using magnets, along with other very simple experiments and mathematics. [/QUOTE]

I don't see how we are going to argue with magnets. There's got to be a monopole joke here somewhere. I'll get back to you.

I just wish I hadn't sent this guy $1000 to help him get his family's fortunes out of the country.

[QUOTE=chappy;359094]I don't see how we are going to argue with magnets. There's got to be a monopole joke here somewhere. I'll get back to you.

I just wish I hadn't sent this guy $1000 to help him get his family's fortunes out of the country.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the good laugh on the family fortune. :smile:

A married man and woman who ran a hotel in England and were taken to court by a male couple to whom they refused to give a double room five years ago, have just finally lost their appeal in the Supreme Court (after going to steadily higher and higher courts over the years since the incident) against the damages to the male couple which were awarded against the Christian hoteliers for discrimination. I found the short, sarcastic article in "The Independent" about it quite amusing:

[URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/martyrs-guesthouse-owners-who-turned-away-gay-couple-on-religious-grounds-are-nothing-of-the-kind-8967077.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]Spare a moment for that persecuted, oppressed minority: homophobes. [...][/QUOTE]

Good to hear. :goodposting:

[url]http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/12/19/catholic-students-revolt-after-church-fires-school-vice-principal-for-being-gay[/url]

#keepmrz2013

[QUOTE=chappy;362534][url]http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/12/19/catholic-students-revolt-after-church-fires-school-vice-principal-for-being-gay[/url]

#keepmrz2013[/QUOTE]
Sin is so damn cool, and it's much more fun when you do it in a group.

If holding your breath was declared immoral by God, asphyxiation deaths would go up a thousand times.

[QUOTE=jasong;362546]Sin is so damn cool, and it's much more fun when you do it in a group.

If holding your breath was declared immoral by God, asphyxiation deaths would go up a thousand times.[/QUOTE]
If I have followed the story correctly, this dedicated and popular teacher has been with his male partner for many years with the school's full knowledge of this. His sacking (more accurately, forced resignation) is as a result of his announcement that he was to finally marry his partner. Why is marrying the guy now sinful when living with him unmarried apparently was not?

[QUOTE=Brian-E;362549]If I have followed the story correctly, this dedicated and popular teacher has been with his male partner for many years with the school's full knowledge of this. His sacking (more accurately, forced resignation) is as a result of his announcement that he was to finally marry his partner. Why is marrying the guy now sinful when living with him unmarried apparently was not?[/QUOTE]Gives a whole new interpretation to the old phrase "living in sin".