Supreme Court Ruling on Same Sex Marriage

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lax16 said:
An opinion formed by observation is not conspiracy theory.

I am most certain that both the White House and Disneyland employ lighting specialists. What I disagree with is your suggestion that they could have run down to the local Home Depot for rainbow colored lights.

Please feel free to bow out of the conversation at any time - especially now that you have called those of us questioning the White House stooping to a new low by lighting up a rainbow like Disneyland, conspiracy theorists.
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No purchase of “rainbow lights” is needed: the colors can be had via combinations of 3 LEDs; and WDW no doubt has enough of those to light a mid-sized town.

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SMH_2015 said:
The point (to me) is not how they did it so quickly but that they did it AT ALL. Especially Disney, that is extremely disappointing. All this “jumping on the band wagon” stuff (for a ruling that will affect maybe 5% of the population?) sickens me.
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I’m amazed that people are so angry over the White House rainbow lights thing. They’re reading way too much into it.

This was only done for a couple of hours. For the remaining 364 nights of the year, the White House has been and will be lit by white lights. If the rainbow lights send a bad message, then what kind of message does the exclusive use of *white *lights send?
 
These events give “the light of the world” a sad new meaning.

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gracepoole said:
The conspiracy theory is that the SCOTUS ruling must have been leaked to the WH and Disney World (:confused:) in order for these light displays to be put up the same day. A number of other possibilities exist: lighting specialists had lights on hand, the court was expected to rule as it did so these entities were prepared… Not all conspiracy theories are faulty, mind you. But you and others have provided ZERO evidence to support yours – and no, a head scratch and disdain for both the ruling and light displays don’t count.

What’s baffling is that folks care this much about light displays rather than focusing on the actual outcome of the ruling.
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I can’t say that I believe information was leaked, only that it is hard to believe all of the coordination was last-minute.

The light display was immature and insulting. If the ruling would have gone the other way, do you think there would be a public display of any kind at the White House? Should there be?

People are talking about a lot more than just the light display. To say we are not focusing on the actual outcome of the ruling implies shallow thinking. That is not so.
 
Darryl_Revok said:
I’m amazed that people are so angry over the White House rainbow lights thing. They’re reading way too much into it.

This was only done for a couple of hours. For the remaining 364 nights of the year, the White House has been and will be lit by white lights. If the rainbow lights send a bad message, then what kind of message does the exclusive use of *white *lights send?
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I’ll ask you too. If the ruling would have gone the other way, how should the White House have responded?
 
lax16 said:
I’ll ask you too. If the ruling would have gone the other way, how should the White House have responded?
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Shine green lights on the White House, to remind people of the numerous tax benefits that come from traditional marriage.
 
GEddie said:
No purchase of “rainbow lights” is needed: the colors can be had via combinations of 3 LEDs; and WDW no doubt has enough of those to light a mid-sized town.

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I agree. I was responding to another person’s comment that they could have run down to Home Depot at the last minute for rainbow-colored lights.
 
Darryl_Revok said:
Shine green lights on the White House, to remind people of the numerous tax benefits that come from traditional marriage.
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There’s no tax benefits given to gays that marry?

I thought that was one of the reasons for supporting ssm?
 
Denise1957 said:
Are you saying that the light display doesn’t have anything to do with the supreme court ruling? 🤷
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No. But given the scope of the implications of the ruling, I would think that the light displays would be of significantly less import.
 
Sarah_B_Good said:
The White House has been very supportive of gay rights. They knew this decision was coming. They were prepared to celebrate the decision. What about that is difficult to comprehend?
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Hilarious…

And the government should celebrate why exactly? They are tools for the people -they’re not supposed to have an opinion. :rolleyes:
 
The entire world was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am not certain what year but I am certain it was done.

I believe in 1900 the POpe invoked the Holy Spirit to be poured out on the world.

In 1984 St John Paul 2 Consecrated the world,including Russia to the Immaculate heart of Mary.

On 11/11/2006 the United State Bishops consecrated this country to the Immaculate Heart.I also believe Pope Francis entrusted his pontificate as well as the world to Mary’s pure and Immaculate Heart.

How come the world continues in its downward spiral of immorality? How long before God says enough…?

42 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States ruled it is legal to kill unborn children as they are not really persons.

In 2005 they failed to protect the rights of a severely disabled woman whose parents wished to care for her.Instead a circuit court judge sided with the womans husband and allowed her to be starved and dehydrated to death…

In 2014 a death certificate was issued during litigation to remove a teenage girl from a California hospital,This death certificate was issued almost a month after the hospital claims she died.This young girl is STILL alive after almost 1 1/2 years.She is profoundly brain damaged and from the look of her MRI she probably will never breath on her own or be able to respond to her environment. She is still a person even though the government of the US says she is dead according to very loose laws.

Now the highest court in the land,actually just 5 PEOPLE have decided for 300 million to redefine what marriage is

How far are we going to descend before we are punished for our inhumanity and immorality?
 
lax16 said:
There’s no tax benefits given to gays that marry?

I thought that was one of the reasons for supporting ssm?
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If the decision had gone the other way, then the tax benefits most likely would have been removed.

Thus, gays could marry members of the opposite sex to gain said benefits. I’ve heard many people pre-Supreme Court that “gays were free to marry people of the opposite sex”.

I know it’s a stretch, but the traditional marriage didn’t come up with any easily recognizable symbols, such as a rainbow.
 
TEPO said:
Hilarious…

And the government should celebrate why exactly? They are tools for the people -they’re not supposed to have an opinion. :rolleyes:
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From the White House’s perspective, a segment of the population was granted a civil right.

They’re supposed to sit on their hands?
 
Darryl_Revok said:
If the decision had gone the other way, then the tax benefits most likely would have been removed.

Thus, gays could marry members of the opposite sex to gain said benefits. I’ve heard many people pre-Supreme Court that “gays were free to marry people of the opposite sex”.

I know it’s a stretch, but the traditional marriage didn’t come up with any easily recognizable symbols, such as a rainbow.
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That’s because not everyone feels that their sexual orientation requires a color scheme.
 
Saw questions were asked of me at the end of the original thread, questions which came about from a debate which had ensued after someone said homosexuals are lost causes. So just to reply…

A poster informed me “a practicing homosexual can never become a Catholic in good standing if he/she intends to remain active. It’s just not possible because such a person could not, by definition, make a valid Confession. Same goes for active devil worshipers, adulterers, murderers, etc.”

But thankfully Gracepoole gave the correct Catholic answer: “I don’t understand your response. The Church does not see anyone as a “lost cause,” nor does Christ. Your response seems to misrepresent what was said.”

Indeed. No one said a thing about practicing homosexuals, adulterers, devil worshipers, murderers, etc who are living in what the CC considers to be sin, as being in good standing until they come into full communion. And that is never a lost cause. So no one should not stop when CC teaching is misrepresented even if it’s misrepresented by faithful Catholics. This is afterall supposed to be a Catholic answers forum. And no I do not want to see branches of Catholicism. So hope this helps.
 
It sickens me that political agenda building has become such a slippery snake that we have become blind to the bias now… We are blind to the bias of these lights just like we’re blind to cable news network bias and we’re blind to the bias involved in Judicial Activism by the supreme court.

Neutrality is almost non-existant at this point.
 
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