If your village is missing its idiot, you might check in California. They seem to be overrun with them. Most recently they decided to legislate love.
Let me tell you a little story about my shit for brains nephew who actually does live in California. He was married ten years and had two children. Sadly, it didn’t work out. Honestly she was horrible, but you never really want to see a marriage end. So we were all a little sad when she left and he fell apart. Eventually he got his shit together, picked up the pieces and met another girl. I don’t like her much, but she makes him happy so what do I care if they want to get married? However, the Catholic church cared a great deal. You see, he was still married in the eyes of the church even though his moron of an ex-wife had been gone 4 years. And the new one is also divorced… and (oh my) a Baptist.
Problem? Not for long. Two annulments later and voila – they were never married. Never mind the kids. Bastards all of them I guess. Funny but I didn’t know the Catholic church could annul a Baptist marriage, but you live and learn.
I’ve lived a long time and I have learned many things. For instance, I now know that even if the marriage is annulled, you don’t get your wedding gift back. I also learned that the previously married then divorced then never really married and now newly engaged couple can actually have the gall to print on their invitation where they are registered. As if that blender I purchased for the first wedding was annulled as well. But I digress…
Give me just a second… I need to remove a spec from my eye…. There. That feels much better. Now. Where was I? Oh yes…
Fill out a check and sign a few forms and two marriages each producing two children are suddenly gone – as if they never really existed. Feel free to marry again. Feel free to ask for more gifts. Feel free to check your brains at the church door. Feel free to pull that enormous beam out of your eye.
Honestly folks. If we paid as much attention to the sexual activities of Catholic priests as we do to homosexuals wanting to marry, we probably could have saved a lot of children from years of guilt, shame, anger and pain.
The world has just gone plain crazy I tell you. The next thing you know a smart, accomplished Latina woman will be nominated to the Supreme Court. Oh the horrors… the horrors.
Can’t we all just get along? Really. I mean it.
Great…Thank For your story.
By: Transmission Flush on February 7, 2010
at 3:43 PM
Yeah, it’s like a do over.
By: Poolman on June 9, 2009
at 8:20 PM
Annulments are very easy to understand if you place them in a “political” context. Just as the Decider had to come up with a new story when no WMDs were found in Iraq, annulment allows a “mistake” to be overlooked.
By: spencercourt on June 9, 2009
at 5:59 PM
My eye is still in a bad way, but it is slowly improving. I still spend too little time at computers to check what was written before, so maybe someone has already written what I am about to. I also had a nasty fall early yesterday morning because of my impaired eyesight. I am still in pain and in a vile mood.
New Haven rejected the fire fighter exam because the test violated Title V11 the federal civil rights law that prevents bias in employment. Employers must consider the racial impact of hiring and promotion without intentional or inadvertant discrimination.
The city hired experts to review the test, and they determined it to be race neutral. New Haven officials threw out the test in part because they feared lawsuits from black civil rights groups.
Ricci’s claim is that the New Haven is violating his civil rights when the city tries to comply with the Title V11 law. It is race discrimination under the 14th Amendment and under Title V11 itself.
An employer can discriminate unintentionally via a “disparate impact” by out screening a group for no good reason. Thus, New Haven claims the results illustrate unintended discrimination, and the rules of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission would support their conclusion. The city was caught between a rock and a hard place. They denied white promotions as the easiest way out of a dillema.
An agreement with a union that the test count as 60% of the promotion decision and also because a city charter rule required that every promotion go to one of the three top scoring candidates. These rules magnified the disparate racial impact because only one Hispanic and no black candidate was eligible for promotion, though several did pass the test.
A writer described New Haven’s conduct a “cruel bait and switch” because they threw out the test after everyone had studied for it and because it produced unexpected results. The firefighters were cheated when the city changed the rules. Ricci is attacking the city for considering the racial impact of the decision but that is what disparate impact requires an employer to consider. Thus, a victory for Ricci would threaten one of our most important civil rights laws.
Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor rejected fire fighter Ricci’s appeal, and many commentators have criticized her for voting against him. Some have even called her a racist. They all have missed the point.
Sotomayor’s court had to weigh the rights of an aggrieved individual, against one of the foundations of United States civil rights legislation. Maybe that, not race compelled her decision. I think the fire fighters should prevail in a way that preserves the law.
Sotomayor is a liberal judge who’s beliefs are compatible with Obama’s, and the President has a right to appoint such judges. I haven’t made up my mind about her confirmation, but she will be our next justice baring relatives finding Grandma hidden in the freezer.
California did it to themselves, and the United States is following close behind.
I’m leaving again, because my eye still hurts, but I will be back sometime.
By: James on June 9, 2009
at 4:27 PM
From one California gal, with family roots in TX, to a TX gal with some of her branches in California, you are too funny, but right on.
California has lost its one remaining marble. The ship is sinking into the Pacific, as so many predicted so long ago — in the original Summer of Love, the year I graduated high school.
The nuts are running the asylum, and we call them our government. TX is soundin’ mighty fine.
By: bigsurkate on June 6, 2009
at 1:44 PM
You can almost believe this:
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Conservatives say the darnedest things!
By: Whirled Peas Δ on June 5, 2009
at 9:04 PM
I knew a girl who was divorced, she wanted to get remarried as a Catholic, but the Church kept asking her for more money for the annulment. So it seems the thing is, “if you pay enough, you can be restored.” And if you’re broke, well, then you’re stuck being a sinner.
She decided to become a Lutheran.
By: Carol on June 4, 2009
at 9:02 PM
Allow me to stand up and cheer! I adore your blog, please keep it up ladies! Tell it like it is!!
By: Andria Delgado on June 4, 2009
at 12:08 PM
Frank
First: I did, if you care to scroll up!
Second: who made you cop of the blog today?
And if you can’t take a joke……poor sod!
By: Werner Oderwer Δ on June 4, 2009
at 10:46 AM
Werner….at least have the respect to compliment the ladies on the latest post before starting with your absurdities….for christ’s sake…..
By: Frank on June 4, 2009
at 10:28 AM
David
as you can see above, “Sanctity” is only a question of the right price……
’nuff said
By: Werner Oderwer Δ on June 4, 2009
at 10:17 AM
Whirled Peas Δ
Whoever said Gays are agains “chicks”? ;-P
By: Werner Oderwer Δ on June 4, 2009
at 10:16 AM
A picture is worth a
thousand words…
June 4th 1989:
Tiananmen Square Massacre
News reports and more HERE.
PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on June 4, 2009
at 8:06 AM
Is this how the Catholic church protects the “sanctity of marriage?”
By: David on June 4, 2009
at 7:29 AM