First day of Georgia’s new “guns everywhere” ends in arrest over confrontation between two “good guys” with guns.
As Ed Kilgore explains here, the Hobby Lobby decision truly opens a pandora’s box potential litigation in a new 21st century version of the culture war, in which your ability to opt out of public law is untethered from what your religion actually says or even the factual basis of your claims. Of course, the government shouldn’t be in the position of adjudicating the internal structure of your religious beliefs. But that’s one of many reasons why giving a broad ability to opt out of the law based on any religious scruple you claim is so unworkable in a democratic context.
The MS Senate primary, which is actually over, descended into deeper depths of racially tinged crazy as former Daily Caller reporter pays source to say he got paid to pay black people to vote for Cochran.
So SCOTUS now says the Hobby Lobby decision applies to basically any kind of birth control you don’t like.
Anti-Gay group plans global Davos-esque confab of anti-gayness in Salt Lake City. I may ask Dan Savage to go with me.
Another day, another gay marriage ban bites the dust. This time in Kentucky.
I think George Will is finding that the kind of “contrarian” piece on sexual assault and rape he wrote a few weeks ago was a lot easier to write in the pre-Internet, pre-social media era. Now the woman who was the centerpiece of his infamous oped is speaking out against Will and his claims about her “privileges.”
I don’t know how else to say it. But you simply must read this piece we published this morning about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s long dalliance with the state’s local “Sovereign Citizen” movement. It will blow your mind. It’s a mix of scary, bizarre and hilarious, with LePage’s staff trying, in profound discomfort, to reel him back to reality while he keeps meeting with the group, buys into various of their conspiracy theories, has a sheriff look into some of their demands and finally has his legal staff draft an opinion on the group’s theory that the Democratic leaders of the state legislature should be arrested and executed. Truly. It will blow your mind. This guy’s a governor.