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Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« on: January 07, 2015, 04:01:42 pm »
Same-sex marriages are offically legal all over the state of Florida, despite efforts by Pam Bondi and her peers to decide what is best for everyone based on their 'moral' beliefs.  It's nice to see my state finally move forward with modern, open-minded thinking . . .

 . . . well, not quite:

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2014-12-31/story/duval-clay-baker-counties-end-courthouse-weddings-avoid-marrying-gays

To avoid violating their views, several counties have decided to stop performing all wedding ceremonies in their courthouses.  I guess having more open-minded officials performing them instead was too easy.  Instead, they felt violating the separation of church and state was the better solution.

I wonder how many Republicans in these counties are claiming the gays are 'forcing them to remove the ceremonies.'

I have a feeling it's going to blow up in their face big time when all the businesses who do agree to perform them gain all the $ instead.
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2015, 05:04:21 pm »
This is going around Fark as well... the general response is "Don't want to do your fucking job for the GOVERNMENT? Then get the fuck out and we'll get someone who will.  You obviously don't give a shit enough to want to stay employed."
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2015, 05:13:34 pm »
I can just tell this is going to backfire.

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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2015, 05:42:06 pm »
Red, Conservative area that's probably starved for whatever money they can get?  And a huge portion of money actually comes from these things?

Ironbite-nope can't see any way this back fires on 'em.

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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2015, 06:16:15 pm »
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2015, 08:44:16 pm »
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We're 4/5 of the way there! Just ten years ago this would have been unthinkable. Heck, I wasn't expecting it to get this far before 2020! It's amazing how fast the world can change for the better sometimes!

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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2015, 09:49:14 pm »
Watermelon, does that map have a key? I don't know what Red and Yellow mean.
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2015, 10:07:42 pm »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States

The map and key is half down the page. TLDR - red means no, yellow means ban overturned by a judge but ruling stayed, or not put in effect yet.
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« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2015, 10:40:04 pm »
Meanwhile, there's nary a mention of legalising it in my own country. Nothing like being even more backwards than "redneck" states like Alaska, South Carolina and Florida.

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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2015, 03:31:49 am »
Irrelevant. Anyone with the right licenses (which are easy to get) can marry someone, and give the middle finger to the courthouse.


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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2015, 05:37:29 pm »
I get the feeling that Florida Repubs know full well it'll fail but it will please the spite and bigot vote regardless.

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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2015, 06:52:05 pm »
Florida is noted for last gasps.
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2015, 12:27:11 am »
Florida is noted for last gasps.

I thought Florida was noted for it's vast natural deposits of WTFery? With head desks and face palms being their primary exports and all.
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2015, 04:39:49 am »
Florida is noted for last gasps.

I thought Florida was noted for it's vast natural deposits of WTFery? With head desks and face palms being their primary exports and all.

Pretty much.  not to mention their love for wasting taxpayers money on stupid fights and then saying, "Look what they mad us do!"  considering they blamed Obama for the shutdown in '13, it wouldn't surprise me that they blamed this on the gays.
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Re: Florida offically enters the 21st. century . . . almost!
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2015, 10:15:46 am »
We just need to force a shotgun weddin' between Georgia and northern Florida, then evacuate the decent folks from there to the other two thirds of the state.

I hereby nominate the city of Fort Lauderdale to be the capital of the newly named state of Florimania, both because it's gay as shit, and saying "Fort Lauderdale, Florimania" rolls off the tongue nicely. Truth in advertising is a thing, people!
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