He insists that Murphy affirm that the Supreme Court got Obergefell’s case right and that “discrimination against the LGBTQ community would have no place in his court room.”īut the legality of same sex marriage has no claim to be a litmus test for court of appeals membership. Thus, he offers Murphy a way to atone for his non-sin of defending that law.
Obergefell grudgingly recognizes that Murphy, as Ohio’s Solicitor General, was required to defend the law against same sex marriage. Obergefell might not like this fact, but it’s indisputable. The term merely indicates that marriage traditionally has been considered to be between a man and a woman. Murphy’s other sin was using “dog whistles such as ‘traditional marriage’ in his brief.” Obergefell doesn’t bother to explain what improper signal “traditional marriage” sends. And because it wasn’t mandated by the constitution, it wasn’t unconstitutional for the state not to recognize it. In short, Obergefell’s marriage was neither mandated nor prohibited by the constitution. If the appropriate legislative body had approved of same sex marriage, instead of barring it as Ohio did, the marriage would not have been problematic. This doesn’t mean that same sex marriage is unconstitutional. 56).His contention was that the constitution creates no right to same sex marriage.
Pelicans & Chihuahuas and Other Urban Legends. Some tellings of the legend end with the sodomizer dead at the hands of his victim and his victim-turned-killer now serving a life term in Leavenworth. The GI is often said to “beat the crap” out of his tentmate upon discovering what he’s been up to. Whereas the college version generally ends with the discovery of the perfidy, revenge is almost always exacted on the perpetrator in the military version, either by the soldier acting on his own or with the help of his buddies. (Both tellings involve predators who drug their victims with alcohol.) The story has spread widely in the United States over the last twenty years or so, generally set in military barracks or campus dormitories. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, and it was included in Gershon Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke. While searching through the items his roommate had left behind this student discovered a beaker of ether and a rag in a large zip-loc bag.Īs Brunvand notes, this legend has been mentioned in print as far back as 1886, in Richard F. He returned to his dorm room to discover that his roommate had hastily moved out and had dropped out of school.
The sluggishness was due to heavy drug use. The doctor seemed puzzled because he explained that the cause of the student’s pains was due to being sodomized on a regular basis. After the exam the doctor asked the student if he was gay. This went on for a week or two before he sought medical attention at Cowell. Apparently his roommate had been using ether on him to knock him out while he, um, had his way with him.Ī guy in the dorms would wake up in the morning feeling sluggish and experiencing abdominal pains. It was discovered that he had a high level of ether in his bloodstream. A guy went to the doctor because of pain in his rectum. A few summers ago, a friend of mine at work told me a story that supposedly happened at the school he went to.