Actually, in the US marriage is basically a civil matter handled by each state. Religions may have their own ideas about who may marry and whether divorce is possible, but such ideas don’t impact the civil status of marriage. The exchange of vows (which is the essence of marrying) may be superintended by professional clergy, but also by various civil officers like judges, justices of the peace, ship captains, and so on. Nothing that an officiant actually says is efficacious; “I now pronounce you man and wife” or whatever is in the nature of a news bulletin, the couple would have actually been married ever since the last syllable of their vows.
It is true that “conservatives” will believe almost any discreditable thing about liberals, as those frisky Macedonian teenagers found in 2016. (But they couldn’t get libs to believe a nonsensical slander about “conservatives” for more than a day or two.)
Dum spiro spero, and all that, and while a drowning man grasping at straws is understandable, the boastful expectations of a victory for such a greatly disliked man seems almost perverse.
Hmmm, looks like Mr Ohman is a “plague on both your houses” sort of guy. I wouldn’t have thought it. “Both parties are the same” is so obviously false that it’s puzzling that so many people fall into that flabby substitute for thought.
S’funny, the intelligence community is pretty near unanimous (and confident) that the Biden Laptop is fake, and more specifically a Russia fake. (It is reported that the intelligence community in the administration is reluctant to inform Trumpety about Russian meddling because he becomes irate.)
Actually, in the US marriage is basically a civil matter handled by each state. Religions may have their own ideas about who may marry and whether divorce is possible, but such ideas don’t impact the civil status of marriage. The exchange of vows (which is the essence of marrying) may be superintended by professional clergy, but also by various civil officers like judges, justices of the peace, ship captains, and so on. Nothing that an officiant actually says is efficacious; “I now pronounce you man and wife” or whatever is in the nature of a news bulletin, the couple would have actually been married ever since the last syllable of their vows.