It has been over six months since the US Supreme Court ruled that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, outraging opponents who warned us that we were willfully thwarting god’s will and inviting horrendous punishments to be inflicted upon us.
Correspondent Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show interviews Rev. E. W. Jackson who still refuses to accept the reality of same-sex marriage. These kinds of dead-enders will never go away but they are already irrelevant.
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It’s already normalised even in places where it’s not legal, such as here in South Australia:
David Bulmer-Rizzi’s death certificate amended to recognise same-sex marriage
(So yeah, here is an example of how the USA is more liberal than Australia)
@ ^ John Morales : True – but we also still have our own dead enders on this issue still :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-27/mps-should-not-snub-gay-marriage-plebiscite-outcome-ciobo/7117604
as well. I refer you to Cory Bernadi for another local (bad) example.
I love the comic. Can you provide a link for where it came from?
It is Non Sequitur by Wiley and it appears daily here. This one appeared on January 18, 2013 following the Supreme Court decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act.