For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!

Friday, June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading Senate conservative, today made the following statement about the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage.

“I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court decision. My position on this issue is clear and has not changed. It is unfortunate that the Court took it upon itself to decide for the people what was being appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process.”   Imhofe website.

For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!
 

His comment that marriage rights are "appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process" is a statement that only a Twit can understand. This is equivalent to a state legislature voting to decide that people of a national heritage, genetic background, or religious persuasion are property and can be bought, sold, and worked to death. It is the same as those representative bodies debating and voting to incarcerate a person for not swearing allegiance to the flag or for not believing in a god.

His belief that it is appropriate to allow common rights to people on one side of a street to be granted that is denied on the other side. Yes, there are places where streets form state boundaries. There are just some aspects of human existence that no matter how long the right has not been recognized or has been actively denied, it is inappropriate to continue even for a day to fail to recognize the right.

Let's look at a Constitution right that the Supreme Court ruled on that flies in the face of EVERY human being. Corporations are people in the sense that they have rights to free speech and religious faith that can inform who they do business with and what benefits they provide to their employees. I personally think this is a travesty of Justices but for now it is the law of the land. Supreme Court Justices are not immune from Twit-like decisions. One can only hope that a future Congress will act to undo that damage as well as other corporation-friendly rulings that injure humans.

You know, there are just some aspects of human society that can't be legislated at a geographical level. Unfortunately, the United Stated, no matter how much it wishes it to be true, cannot legislate beyond its own borders. However, within them they can be consistent.