At Roberts’ confirmation hearings, one of the members of his family that he introduced to the Senators was a cousin named Jean Podrasky. [...]
Podrasky is gay, as Roberts knows, she says. She lives in San Francisco with her longtime girlfriend. Would she like to be able to get married someday?
“Yes.”
Has she ever discussed –
“I really would never disrespect him by asking him about his cases,” Podrasky says, interrupting.
Could John Roberts vote to strike down Proposition 8 too? It looks like there’s free wedding booze in it for him.
Oh course he won’t. By the way, did you know he has already spent five years as chief justice? Only 78 more years until we get a new one. [Fortune via Petrelis Files]
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Yes, why would she want to bother him with a trifling detail such as how people want equal rights and dumb stuff like that?
“I really would never disrespect him by asking him about his cases,”"Mom told me that if I lecture him about gay rights one more time she's not getting me anything for Christmas and it's my fault Dad drinks so much"Fixed
Say, you do know a little bit about this psychology stuff, don't you?
Thanks for reminding me to tell my daughters that it's not their fault; it's their mother's.
What a difference a gay makes. Or in this case, not.
I'm sure that's the same level of professional reserve shared by Clarence and Ginny Thomas.
Five years of Johnny boy – hmmm – feels like 20 years of Clarence – oh wait.
Sure. Why yell at him when a good, swift kick is so much more satisfying?
If under Citizens United, corporations have the rights of individuals; and
If corporations are men (everyone knows they are because they are greedy, fractious and territorial); therefore
there can be no corporate mergers, because two male corporations can't get married.
How's THAT for a syllogism??!!??
Needs more UFOs and bimetalism.
You mean like a thermostat?
LIKE that!!
What, is her longtime girlfriend Mary Cheney?
Lindsey Graham.
Instead of rice, wedding guests throw ham buscuits.
When weed becomes legal, I want to throw a bouquet of Northern Lights.
I don't really blame her for not discussing it with him–I NEVER discuss anything "controversial" with my insane, retard, "compassionate conservative" cousin.
I DO blame her for admitting they're related.
Yes, Jean or Joan or whatever the fuck your name is. If you ask your cousin, the Chief Justice of The US Supreme Court about his opinion of your rights as a citizen and human being, you would be showing him an enormous amount of disrespect.
Never underestimate the tendency of people in positions of power to use that power in their own interests even if that's contradictory to everything else they've said or done before. Look at Cheney and his daughter.
Okay don't look at them because they're hateful. Think about them, then.
Gay people need to get over not talking to their friends/relatives who are in a position of power to make a decision on gay stuff. I know a legislator who has many gay friends, who is wishy washy on gay stuff and says that they have never been asked to vote for gay marriage by their friends and says if it was so important to them they would have talked to her. I have told them "it's because they don't want to put you in a weird position" but she still thinks that it's because it isn't important to them…very frustrating.
This just tells you she's a Log Cabin Republican: less gay, more greedy.
It's all about money. & it is. An homosexual with money, same as anyone else with money, can skate thru pretty much anything.
I really would never disrespect him by asking him about his cases
And do you kneel and kiss his ring when you're in his presence?
I mean, fuck… here's a guy who views you as not worthy of the dignity that is afforded by equality under the law and basic human rights and you don't want to "disrespect" him by bringing that fact up?
I guess it's a good thing for Jean that Harry Burns's mother didn't feel the same way.
As this SF Business Times article makes clear (mid-page), Jean Podrasky's not afraid to sue for blood libel.
But sue for the right to marry? Meh…where's the million dollar payout in that?
If my cousin was Chief Justice, I would definitely have the Homo Marriage conversation with him, mostly because his coke addiction makes him easy to talk into things.
In my opinion CNN should fire his ass. Oh, wait, I seem to remember seeing something recently where he was hired by Foxnews. What am I on?
Never mind asking him about an actual case–what's wrong with expressing a desire to be able to marry legally? Because if Roberts is so fragile that the mere mention of support for gay marriage might just judicial impartiality (yeah, I know, but that laugher is a topic for anothher post), maybe he is too fragile to be Chief Justice…
But she has no problem disrespecting herself, her partner or their relationship. I believe this is what conservatives and those with power mean when they demand civility.
Oh my fucking Jesus, you could be influencing the ONE MOTHERFUCKER in the whole country into bringing equality to gays and lesbians everywhere, and the only thing stopping you is 'disrespect'? I WANT TO GET MARRIED, JEAN, AND I DON'T CARE IF THAT MEANS YOUR RETARD COUSIN GETS A LITTLE EMBARRASSED IN THE FUCKING PROCESS.
John Roberts has been Chief Justice for 5 years, eh? Could've sworn it was the twin-headed beast we refer to as "Scalito" of ancient lore.
If this cousin-lady really wants to beseech the head of the court, she should conjure up Scalito, the Italian destroyer of universes and eater of souls.
Christ. Is it true that Roberts was part of the Brooks Brothers Riot? Did the Seniilate know that when they confirmed him?
He's never going to do anything to piss off gay people in particular because of an extremely compromising photograph that Wonkette printed a few years back. And that's all she wrote.
http://wonkette.com/118575/roberts-a-la-mode
I'm not a constitutional scholar, but speaking only logically (is the Constitution logical?) how does anyone not have a right to marry?
This is a trifle late, 'cause I've been off-line, but
FUCK JOHN ROBERTS.
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