Jimmy Carter disappoints on the issue of Texas and gay marriage

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51. he also said he didn't want the government telling churches who to marry

which is idiotic, because no one's talking about that. churches always have been and will continue to be free to marry or not marry whoever they want. they can discriminate on the basis of race or how much of a "donation" you've made.

my own brother had a tough time finding a rabbi who would perform his marriage ceremony because he was adopted at the age of 6 weeks. the only religion he ever knew was judaism and the only mother he ever knew was a jew, but couldn't prove his *birth* mother was a jew so many rabbis refused to perform the ceremony.

completely stupid, but the point is, no church is being forced to perform any ceremony they don't want to.


carter's ill-informed about this issue, and ill-informed about it being a state's prerogative to deny access to federal benefits to a subset of its people.

ultimately, i think even today's right-wing supreme court will not fight this. they can't roll back the states that already have it, and it's really just unworkable to have people married in some states but not married when they travel through other states, or to force people to go to different states in order to get a federal benefit.