OK, so I have not done this before and I likely won't do it every day as it would take way to much time with the wealth of material from which to draw, but when I come across a particular quote that makes my ludicrous meter peak I will post "Today's Stupidest Thing Said by a Republican."
And I confess there was actually a tie today, and both are from dissenting opinions on today's Supreme Court ruling making marriage a constitutional right for all American citizens. (Yeah!!!)
First up, Chief Justice Roberts:
"The court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the states and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?" - Chief Justice Roberts
As you likely know, each dissenter wrote their own opinion... not surprising really, they probably read each others' and thought the arguments were too stupid so each decided to write their own, ignorantly not realizing that any argument against marriage equality must, by its very nature, be a stupid argument because it is an argument against personal freedom, equality, and human rights.
That said, I would like to answer Justice Robert's rhetorical question, which I hope will illustrate why this tied for Today's Stupidest Thing Said by a Republican. He asks at the end, "Just who do we think we are?”
Well I'd like to say a more enlightened society than "the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs." It's jackasses like you who are holding us back, Mr Roberts. Should we never have changed our mind about the Earth's shape or position in the solar system because for millennia before then people accepted the earth as flat and at the center of everything? Who did they think they were going and changing things based on new evidence? The nerve! And how about when we ended slavery? Who the fuck did we think we were?
Chief justice Roberts, you are today's embarrassment. Thanks for the laugh anyway, but given your position of power, it is a painful laugh.
Now on to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr:
“It [the majority opinion] will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy. In the course of its opinion, the majority compares traditional marriage laws to laws that denied equal treatment for African-Americans and women. The implications of this analogy will be exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.” - Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr
Why, yes, Mr Alito, of course this decision will be exploited to try to stamp out every vestige of discrimination, or what you are referring to as "dissent." Something being exploited is not necessarily bad or evil. So if this decision is exploited to end bigotry and discrimination, just as court decisions and laws to end discriminatory practices against Americans with darker skin and women were exploited to end discriminatory practices (which dissenters opposed doing, correct?), then that is a good thing. This majority decision should be hailed as one big step forward in a long march towards true equal treatment under law... for all human beings. Isn't guaranteeing equal treatment under law one of the main things you should be concerned with as a Supreme Court Justice? By dissenting in this case you are going against that principle, and you are saying that the law should view some different than others purely based on who they love.
And that is why you, Justice Alito, are tied for first place for Today's Stupidest Thing Said by a Republican. Congratulations!
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