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celedhring

#51855
September 19, 2015, 12:55:03 PM
Back in 2005 our dear conservatives put up a fuss when the socialist government approved our gay marriage law, taking the law to our constitutional court (which waved it through), and organizing several demos alongside the Spanish Catholic Church.

Ten years later, president Rajoy and several big profile government and party types have attended the marriage of one of the party's regional leaders, who is gay. A spokesman said that the party's view on the issue has "evolved" and now they support gay marriage. They are late to the party, but they are welcome.

The Larch

#51856
September 19, 2015, 01:51:33 PM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2015, 12:55:03 PM
Back in 2005 our dear conservatives put up a fuss when the socialist government approved our gay marriage law, taking the law to our constitutional court (which waved it through), and organizing several demos alongside the Spanish Catholic Church.

Ten years later, president Rajoy and several big profile government and party types have attended the marriage of one of the party's regional leaders, who is gay. A spokesman said that the party's view on the issue has "evolved" and now they support gay marriage. They are late to the party, but they are welcome.

You forgot to mention that Rajoy got seated on the "Celine Dion" table.  :lol:

All the stupid stuff they said about it is still on record, though, and many of the ones that took the law to the Constitutional Court are still holding office, Rajoy himself included. Also, I guess that Fernández Díaz is still claiming to be against it because it doesn't guarantee the continuation of the human race. :P

celedhring

#51857
September 19, 2015, 02:37:45 PM
Fernández Díaz, not even the USA puts its crazy Bible thumpers in positions of so much power. When he compared abortion with terrorism  :bleeding:

mongers

#51858
September 19, 2015, 03:14:45 PM
Probably deputising for Shelf here, Brian Sewell RIP.  :bowler:

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Brian Sewell was Britain's most famous and controversial art critic.

Possessed of forthright opinions and a fine disregard for the art establishment, he succeeded in sharing his fascination for all things cultural in a manner that was extremely contagious.

The combination of his high-pitched plummy voice and singular style of presentation made his television programmes compulsive viewing for millions.

His gleeful and often scathing dismissal of anyone who held a view other than his own made his newspaper columns delightful and infuriating in equal measure.

Brian Sewell was born on 15 July 1931. Brought up in London, he discovered much later in life, that his father was a minor composer named Philip Heseltine, better known by his alter ego Peter Warlock.

His mother, whom Sewell described as something of a "girl about town", was one of a number of Warlock's mistresses and the couple never married.
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Full obituary here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26924911
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

11B4V

#51859
September 19, 2015, 05:32:02 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Tonitrus

#51860
September 19, 2015, 11:02:17 PM
Yep, Western civilization is doomed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=7&v=Z0JoG2Hs1fw

Jaron

#51861
September 19, 2015, 11:24:01 PM
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Jaron

#51862
September 19, 2015, 11:25:43 PM
When you're playing Fallout and you find iguana on a stick:

Winner of THE grumbler point.

11B4V

#51863
September 20, 2015, 01:18:22 AM
 :)
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#51864
September 20, 2015, 02:04:17 AM
11B4V was one of the reasons Seedy left.  He said he was tired of that ignorant redneck bullshit.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#51865
September 20, 2015, 02:19:34 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 20, 2015, 02:04:17 AM
11B4V was one of the reasons Seedy left.  He said he was tired of that ignorant redneck bullshit.
Lame he could have banned me. So try again.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Syt

#51866
September 20, 2015, 02:57:43 AM
Leia ... gets around.













I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

celedhring

#51867
September 20, 2015, 08:29:02 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 20, 2015, 02:57:43 AM
Leia ... gets around.


They are brother and sister  :yucky:

Tonitrus

#51868
September 20, 2015, 09:14:39 AM
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Razgovory

#51869
September 20, 2015, 09:44:38 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 20, 2015, 02:19:34 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 20, 2015, 02:04:17 AM
11B4V was one of the reasons Seedy left.  He said he was tired of that ignorant redneck bullshit.
Lame he could have banned me. So try again.

That's just what he said.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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