Here’s the thing I never understood about Thomas. You know they wouldn’t stop with same-sex marriage and eventually go for interracial marriage. Is he just playing the long game of wanting an annulment or does he not think that’ll happen?
It’s not just him, lots of minorities think they won’t be subject to the consequences because “they’re one of the good ones”.
Hell, Biden isn’t a minority but he’s a Dem, and he was constantly surprised from 2008 to today that republicans stopped treating him different than other Dems the second they no longer needed him.
Republicans will drop Thomas just as fast as they dropped Biden when he’s not needed.
Like, none of this is new, it’s the same as the guy who wrote “first they came for” when the Nazis were in power.
Niemöller was initially an anti-Communist, anti-semite and supported Adolf Hitler. But when Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler.
In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a cleric and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II.
Specifically for the marriage issues, it’s likely that any existing ones would remain intact and only the new ones would be subject to the ruling. Also, it would likely be a “give it to the states” kind of thing, and since Thomas lives in Virginia he probably wouldn’t have to worry about it anyways.
Here’s the thing I never understood about Thomas. You know they wouldn’t stop with same-sex marriage and eventually go for interracial marriage. Is he just playing the long game of wanting an annulment or does he not think that’ll happen?
It’s not just him, lots of minorities think they won’t be subject to the consequences because “they’re one of the good ones”.
Hell, Biden isn’t a minority but he’s a Dem, and he was constantly surprised from 2008 to today that republicans stopped treating him different than other Dems the second they no longer needed him.
Republicans will drop Thomas just as fast as they dropped Biden when he’s not needed.
Like, none of this is new, it’s the same as the guy who wrote “first they came for” when the Nazis were in power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
Tgere’s a term for that: “pickme” girls and boys.
Specifically for the marriage issues, it’s likely that any existing ones would remain intact and only the new ones would be subject to the ruling. Also, it would likely be a “give it to the states” kind of thing, and since Thomas lives in Virginia he probably wouldn’t have to worry about it anyways.
The state of Virginia is literally the defendant in the interracial marriage supreme court case. Loving v Virginia