Slog - Comments on We Might be Warming Up to Nickels Again (No Freeway on the Waterfront!), but the Haters are Still Hating http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again The Sacremento, California-based Pacific Justice Institute (a conservative legal group that pushes its religous agenda in the courts) filed its brief in appeals court today challenging Mayor Nickels's 2004 order that the city of seattle honor same-sex marriages from other states when providing employee benefits. Thanks for the tip Towleroad.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:57:58 -0800 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:39:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ed "History furnishes no examples of a priest ridden people maintaining a free government."

Thomas Jefferson


]]> Ed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683057 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:46:20 -0800 Comment by Brandon Dismuke So I called these pricks and they told me that they are filing the suit on behalf of a "few" concerned citizens of the Seattle area. When asked why a group that is based out of California with no offices in Seattle had any place to interfere in it's politics or with the decisions of it's mayor I was told the group had no comment... Then was asked for the third time in the conversation if I was a reporter.

]]> Brandon Dismuke http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683075 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683075 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:07:32 -0800 Comment by Nancy Hey Christians, the USA is a secular nation based on secular laws. We as citizens will not live according Christian teachings. The fact that something is written in your Bible should have no relevance in the laws of a secular country. That book is not everybody's cup of tea and we are getting really tired of you pushing it on the rest of us at every turn.

]]> Nancy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683111 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683111 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:31:39 -0800 Comment by A-Okay. SacrAmento. Like "sacrament" + "o."

]]> A-Okay. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683135 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683135 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:55:11 -0800 Comment by war pigs Nancy, if the bible is something that xtians can use to legislate laws, perhaps I should get even older religious books (rig veda anyone?) and come up with bizarre things that are forbidden from them.

an alternate tactic is being pushed by sites such as "www.godhatesshrimp.com", which argues that since the book of Leviticus is apparently still valid as a moral guide then we need to kill disobedient children and not eat shrimp.

]]> war pigs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683141 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:00:04 -0800 Comment by Jason Carver The late Jesus Christ was never quoted as saying anything at all about homosexuality. Apparently did object to figs. See below.

www.godhatesfigs.com

]]> Jason Carver http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683168 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683168 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:21:46 -0800 Comment by Jason Carver The late Jesus Christ was never quoted as saying anything at all about homosexuality. Apparently he did object to figs. See below.

www.godhatesfigs.com

]]> Jason Carver http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683169 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:22:19 -0800 Comment by Andrew The best part is when the group refers to Nickles as a "radical". I just had to laugh and laugh. But I have given up on the US we are just a militant Christian Nation flavored with facism. Just not worth trying to save it.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683195 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:52:24 -0800 Comment by haha I think it must be time for us free thinkers to host our own “tea party” as our founders once did when they could no longer stand the tyrannical far reaching powers of a conglomerate. Lets have a bible party and shove a few books in the Sound

]]> haha http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683532 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:35:21 -0800 Comment by Sean Throwing some bibles in the sound would be great for my mental health.

P.S. I wonder - can we counter suit these assholes for anything?

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683826 News Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:37:57 -0800 Comment by K X One Sacramento - preferred spelling:
Excremento

Yes, as a matter of fact I do have the right, until I was 21 I lived a stones throw from Excramento and am forced to regularly return for weddings etc...


]]> K X One http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/we_might_be_warming_up_to_nickels_again#c683958 News Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:39:38 -0800