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Mon Jan 12, 2015, 01:39 PM Jan 2015

You can tell the anti-gay marriage people are getting desperate...

"Call out the National Guard! Wahhhh!!!"

Religious Right Activist Wants National Guard Deployed To Stop Gay Couples' Marriages

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/12/2015 12:10 pm

Anti-LGBT activist Randy Thomasson has a message for governors across America: deploy the National Guard to stop same-sex marriages. Thomasson, who leads the right-wing group Save California, detailed his proposal last week in a memo [PDF] to “pro-family leaders concerned about marriage”: Each governor pledges themselves to “support and defend” the plain words of their state constitution, including, in morally conservative states, the definition of marriage as only for a man and a woman. Governors raise their right hand and publicly promise to “faithfully execute” (or carry out) these written laws, as commanded by their state constitutions. Each governor also has an administration that serves his/her pleasure that is in charge of the state’s marriage forms (licenses and applications) that county clerks use. And each governor is authorized to call out his/her state's militia or National Guard to enforce written laws and maintain public order against foreign and domestic enemies.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activist-wants-national-guard-deployed-stop-gay-couples-marriages#sthash.PNbRCH4m.dpuf

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You can tell the anti-gay marriage people are getting desperate... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2015 OP
Mirthful Randy! CurtEastPoint Jan 2015 #1
This was the basic scenario at the start of the Civil War. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #2
 

Warren Stupidity

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2. This was the basic scenario at the start of the Civil War.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 01:42 PM
Jan 2015

At what point in the rolling insurgency on the right, including one very public armed uprising, will the federal government respond with even a fraction of the resources they put into suppressing Occupy Wall Street?

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