I think I adequately understand the law on defamation as it applies to bloggers, but I appreciate the recommendation.

If I were you I would seek legal advice from an expert. Ofttimes local bar associations will have a program where you can get legal consultation for as little as $35.

Every bill that passes is subject to a people’s veto.

If we’re going to gain our rights legislatively we’re going to have to do it through the mechanisms of the legislative process. We can’t leap-frog one of the processes because it’s unfair (it is) immoral (it is) or for any other reason under the sun.

Nor can we assign motivations to her regardless of the public statements because the petition itself are about the text of the bill and not the subject of the bill

So even if she were told by her pastor to sign the petition because all good Christians oppose gay rights; we have no reason insight into her motivations.

One could, hypothetically, vote against the Bill due to the extra-legal-loopholes it provides for religious folks in defining marriage.

The point is, you have to move a lot of items from the category of “well I just don’t know” into the category of “I know” in order to make the sorts of accusations y’all are making.

Now that she’s lawyered-up, I would suggest y’all do the same before the libel suit is served.

This is not a matter of an employer dictating every aspect of an employee’s life, it is a matter of an employer asking there employee not to undertake actions in direct opposition to the job they were hired to do.

I guess you also want to live in a world where gay people can continue to get fired for being gay, because if you want to live in a world with all those caveats you mention, logic dictates that you agree with my statement.

I am more and more ashamed at how many people are willing to cut off their nose to spite their faces.

You are all for it when it benefits YOU, but not when it benefits your enemies.

Seems everyone here bought into the idea of a perpetual “Company Store”, where your employer can now dictate EVERY aspevt pf your lfe. I guess Citizens United was right, corporations ARE people, and they can tell you how and what to do, all your life, every day, every aspect. And some here would go along with that like sheep to the slaughter.

You should read the first amendment sometime Andrew:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

McCaskill is in no way aggrieved by gays having the same right to marry that she does and hence she deserves no right to petition the government to oppress others.