++Mike Huckabee vows a Martin Luther King-like resistance to same sex marriage.
++The Southern Baptist Conference vowed a "Bonhoffer moment".
++The Texas Attorney General says that county clerks don't have to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. He told them they should expect being sued but there were plenty of lawyers to assist them defend their "religious rights".
++Buried in the marriage-equality opinion by Justice Kennedy is the bombshell that "religious belief should not influence policy." He basically ruled out religious objections to same-sex marriage.
++Hidden from view also was President Obama's desire to get the KKK and other extreme right organizations to disclose their members. The President disclosed this with the mayor of Charleston just after the massacre at Mother Emmanuel.
++This coming week will be the fulminations of the Right about both Supreme Court opinions.
++Also expect the drumbeat of propaganda from israel and AIPAC on the Iranian deal. It is likely the deal will be concluded a few days after the deadline.
++How this will effect 2016 is too early to tell but there will be a reaction and it is too soon to tell whether the Democrats can counter it.
++Meanwhile the New York Times has an editorial about the many efforts the Republicans in Congress are trying to defund the various ways by which Obamacare is implemented.
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