Same-sex Marriage in California

[Hunter Sopko]

Second least likely?  Faberge Egg incidents.

I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH!

[BaconForTheSoul]

Why don't blind people just use a debit card like the rest of us?

As for gay marriage... LOL at the U.S. actually practicing seperation of church and state.  Our last president was elected because he is religious.  However, the government does concede certain religious issues, and this is going to be one of them eventually.

Personally, I'm kind of with some of you guys.  It doesn't concern me at all, except in extremely roundabout ways, so why not let 'em marry. 

[NotMiki]

America's gov't-religion connection is, like our views of race, weeeeird.  Why is the movie 'Balls of Fury' even remotely acceptable in this day and age, when it's filled  with ridiculous Asian racial caricatures?  The answer 'because it's a parody of martial arts movies, not a parody of Asian-American culture' is either nuanced or tortured logic, depending on your point of view, but it's something Americans get in their gut.

Likewise, why is it ok for existing versions of the 10 commandments to reside in courthouses when new ones can't be built?  Why is it ok for Christmas to be a federal holiday and our money to say 'in God we trust?'  The answer that the old ones are ok because they're grandfathered probably doesn't hold much weight in other countries but again, makes total sense to us nutty Americans.

Maybe the fact that religious types in America tend to think they have a lot in common with each other ('cept for those Muslim heathens, of course) has a lot to do with it.  I can't think of many countries where Mitt Romney could make a speech that says Mormonism is a friendly brother to Christianity to the heads of the Christian conservatives and not be laughed out of the room, but he did-- and they loved him.

[Grefter]

Speaking as an ultra hardcore Atheist, they can take Christmas away as a national holiday from my cold dead fingers.  However, they can feel free to add as many other national holidays for religions as they want to.

[superaielman]

Maybe the fact that religious types in America tend to think they have a lot in common with each other ('cept for those Muslim heathens, of course) has a lot to do with it.  I can't think of many countries where Mitt Romney could make a speech that says Mormonism is a friendly brother to Christianity to the heads of the Christian conservatives and not be laughed out of the room, but he did-- and they loved him.

I don't think Muslims being Muslims have anything to do with it, it more has to do with politics. If they voted Republican and generally but not specifically backed the religious right's agenda they'd likely be just as welcome as mormons and jews.

[NotMiki]

I doubt it.  Jews, generally speaking, vote democrat about 70% of the time.  This election cycle, it's been closer to 80%.  No, I believe the problem the religious right, and a lot of America, has with Muslims, is pure racism.  I believe the open mistrust a lot of people in America show for Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, will be the shame of our generation, the thing our grandkids secretly wonder why we allowed to happen.