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A Kentucky judge tries an end-around on the culture front.

A local judge contends the U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage has derailed Tennessee’s ability to determine what constitutes divorce — leaving one Signal Mountain couple married against their will.

As marriage is a legal contract and you are either in a contract or you’re not, this is prima facie stupid, but culture warriors will no doubt think it’s a brilliant tactic to allow them to interfere in the private lives of others.

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Image via Job’s Anger.

What is wrong with these people?

. . . as long it remains behind closed doors.

It amazes how the letter-writer manages to conflate a pregnant lady wishing to continue working at her job as long as she can with “political correctness.”

Her doing so supports the argument that persons who complain about “political correctness” want nothing more than a license to be nasty without penalty.

Via Raw Story.

I’ve mentioned before my opinion that persons who complain about “political correctness” are part of the “have cake, eat it too” crowd: They want to be permitted to be nasty without penalty.

Historiann sums it up quite nicely. A snippet:

Complainers about the “p.c. police” are hypocrites. They demand a conflict-free work environment for themselves, while criticizing students for being conflict-averse and “afraid” of ideas they dislike.

Fundie frolics.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

I think Henry Mancini* wrote a song about just these sorts of antics:

When we played our crusade,
We were like children posing . . . .

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*I apologize to the memory of Mancini, who was a marvelous composer whose music I cherish, but, really, I couldn’t resist.

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. . . or be held in contemptible court.

What is wrong with these people?

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Via Raw Story.

Reg Henry calls out the meanness behind those who whine about “political correctness:

What we basically have here is the grievance that people just can’t call anybody anything anymore without a big fuss being made. Oh, for the halcyon days when men were men and women were chicks, sluts or hormonally challenged, and so on (insert here your own slandered group). In fits of debased nostalgia, some people want to go back to those sorry times, and they think only political correctness is stopping them.

What bunk. As most of us learned in kindergarten as our first practical experience of free speech, when you say something mean, some kid is likely to whack you with a wooden block. In the real world, then as now, reacting to negative language is not necessarily political. Oftentimes, it is just insensitivity and bad manners inviting a reaction.

At the San Jose Mercury-News, William Endicott contemplates the culture warriors and is not impressed.

. . . people who want to continue the culture war remind me of the handful of Japanese soldiers who emerged from jungles years after the end of World War II, unaware that the war was long since over.

Jessica Valenti reflects on the Republican debate and points out that, when it comes to Republicans, watch what they do, not what they say.

Most of the Republican presidential hopefuls are probably giddy right now, as Donald Trump continues to take heat for being a sexist pig while the rest of them can pretend that they care about women.

For one glorious moment in time, this group of men – who between them have enacted legislation curbing women’s rights, voted against equal pay, and shamed women for having sex – can puff up their chests and play make-believe that they are women’s caped crusaders and true equality warriors.

But at least Donald Trump is upfront about his sexism. The other candidates are just blowing smoke up our … skirts.

Apparently Deuteronomy 22:17 is all the rage at Virginia Wesleyan College (which is, by the way, about two miles down the road thataway).

A private liberal arts college in Virginia being sued by a woman who claims she was raped on campus is demanding she provide them with her entire sexual history — including partner’s names — in a motion filed in Norfolk Circuit Court.

Virginia Wesleyan College wants the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” to name any individual she has had sexual intercourse with “at any time” and provide them with names of all her boyfriends since August 2012, when she was allegedly raped by a male classmate.