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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Just ignore them and let them stew over in the corners into which they've painted themselves, and their stupid "backlash" will blow over soon enough.

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COMMENTS: 
*  ... I fear for the President's safety. Every right wing "news" site I've viewed over the last few weeks has links to articles assuring readers that Obama will not finish out his second term because it has been "prophesized." I think they are trying to goad some nutcase into fulfilling that prophecy.
   *  You have that correct. The nut-jobs on the religious fringe would love to have some whack-a-doodle carry out such a scenario so they could get what they want and put the blame on someone else.  I'm also pretty sure that attempts have been made, and foiled, that we know nothing about and never will.  Let's hope they don't get their wish.
*  More appropriate title: "Christian Conservative Bullsh!t Begins"
*  The only backlash is one of their own making. The youth of this country got to see first-hand what that religion is all about and many want nothing to do with it.
*  The problem for conservative Christians is that they have no sense of proportionality. Everything is "the end of the world" in their world. Every day the "sky is falling" for one reason or another. It's always been that way for them.  They live their lives in fear of judgment from their angry God, and they take that out on the rest of us (unfortunately). It's why they're so harsh and judgmental of others imo.  One would think, given how badly they want Jesus to come back and judge the wicked among us, that they would be glad for the latest development, given how irredeemably evil they think marriage is for gay people.
    *   It was supposedly the end of the World when desegregation happened. Again when interracial marriage was legalized. Radical Christian extremists vehemently fought both using the Bible as their weapon.
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Christian Conservative Backlash Begins
By Jonathan Bernstein, June 29, 2015

1. Let’s start with Obergefell: Here’s Andrew Sullivan on marriage equality.

2. Jonathan Rauch at Time on marriage equality.

3. Ed Kilgore on the Christian conservative backlash -- although I’ll stick (and I’m not saying that Kilgore disagrees) with my sense that any backlash will be short-lived.

4. Sarah Posner on the decision, the dissents and religion.

5. While Philip Klein warns his fellow conservatives not to overreach in their language condemning the decision.

6. At the Monkey Cage, Michael Bailey on why King turned out to be a 6-3 decision and what it tells us about the Court.

7. Also at the Monkey Cage, Jonathan Oberlander and Eric Patashnik have a good overview of the ACA after the King case.

8. A nice Robert Farley speculation at The National Interest about a world without a U.S. invasion of Iraq.

9. HuffPollster has a nice look on what the early nomination polls mean (or don’t mean).

10. And James Fallows on Barack Obama’s funeral oration Friday.
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