The Corrupt Supreme Court says Wedding Website Designers CAN Discriminate Against Imaginary Gay Couples... The Designer has Never Actually Designed a Wedding Website... and the Customer was FAKE!

The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court... In filings in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case is a supposed request for a gay wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it. Somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.”

It looks like Smith and her attorneys have, perhaps unwittingly, invented a gay couple in need of a wedding website in a case in which they argue that same-sex marriages are “false.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

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I just wrote to my Congressman and Said: IMPEACH The Corrupt Supreme Court. Massive Bribery... One of the Powers that the US House of Representatives Has is to THROW THEM OUT! Not Only are they Ruling Against the Wishes of the Vast Majority of Americans but... They Drive Voters away from the Republican Party... Recent Rulings anger Women, Gays, Young People, Minorities and College students... The only people NOT in that group are Uneducated Old White Men... How Can the GOP Win elections when the Vast Majority of Americans View The GOP as Corrupt Puppets of Billionaires???

https://www.house.gov/

Why employ an Anti-Gay Wedding Website Designer at all? Simply Do It Yourself! Blogger Allows You to Publish Words and Pictures... and Links to Videos... and Links to Gift Registries at Stores... What More Could You Want? 

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and 

https://www.youtube.com/

This Could be a Task Assigned to a Member of the Wedding Party... Some Tech-Savvy Friend Could Do This in a Day... 

and ZAZZLE lets you Design Wedding Invitations and Cards... https://www.zazzle.com/

Headline: Supreme Court rules in favor of Christian designer in gay wedding website case.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4061169-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-christian-designer-in-gay-wedding-website-case/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/493444987665693/user/1264136140/

On FaceBorg: Bill Gordon Said:

To the Conservative members of the Supreme Court and Republican elected officials everywhere in the US, I think you all need to re-read your religious books because you seem to have missed something important.

Whether it is the Koran, the Torah, the New Testament, or any other religious text, they all boil down to these 3 basic constucts:

LOVE, KINDNESS, and COMPASSION

Somehow, it seems you have missed this in your religious training and have cherry picked verses to suit your behaviors. You have bastardized your understanding to be:

HATRED, VINDICTIVENESS, and APATHY

And your Rulings and Laws reflect your true nature!!

#VoteBlue

#VoteThemOut

#VoteBlueForSoManyReasons

Possibly one of the best speeches on the House floor ever!

Adam Schiff speaking to his Republican "colleagues" about his being censured...

Schiff had his own take on his censure: “To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you,’ he said. “You honor me with your enmity. You flatter me with this falsehood. You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers and I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy and I am grateful.”

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Hello to every eligible voter in the United States.

Over 177 pieces of VOTER SUPPRESSION Legislation has been introduced into State Legislatures since the last Election!

Let's Win Back the House and Keep the Senate and Keep the White House too in 2024!

#RISEAMERICA #VoteBlueForSoManyReasons #SPEAKOUT

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It's time once again for this friendly reminder...

Wherever you live, make sure you are registered to vote. DEMOCRATS, this is especially important if your state does VOTER ROLL PURGES!!!

Are you Registered? Have you verified that you are still active on the rolls in your state?

Do you need to Register for the first time? Do you need to re-Register?

Do you know the Voting Regulations and possible Restrictions in your state?

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Check it regularly all the way up to the 2024 Election.

Click on the link below and have all of your questions answered for your state.

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To all the Republicans calling the documents leaker a patriot, let me refresh the definition of the word TRAITOR that you probably missed during your elementary school lessons.

TRAITOR

: a person who is not loyal to his or her own country, friends, etc.

: a person who betrays a country or group of people by helping or supporting an enemy.

Example:

He was a traitor who betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the enemy.

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Just in case you might be wondering why tRump might want to hide an affair, check out this information.

If Melania had sued for divorce, tRump would have faced the following consequences...

"choosing to use adultery as grounds for a divorce can be a tactical negotiating move. If your spouse is high profile or in the public eye, having their spouse file for divorce on the grounds of adultery could be damaging, or at the very least, cause a public relations problem. Having actual testimony given about adultery could be extremely damaging. This, in turn, comes not only with personal costs, but financial costs.

Your spouse would need to pay for damage control and could face damaging consequences in their career. Anyone with a morals clause in their employment contract would be greatly concerned."

Any questions?

Here's an interesting aspect regarding tRump's "hush money" alleged payment. It was to cover up a crime in NY State!

Believe it or not, adultery is still a crime in New York. Section 255.17 of the New York penal code provides, “A person is guilty of adultery when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse." Dec 16, 2022

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Autobiography: Laguna Beach - In Southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego - We went to a Wedding and Stayed at the Famous Hotel Laguna.

My Niece had her Wedding at a Golf Course up on a Hill overlooking Laguna Beach. On the Road to Irvine. It was a Fancy Formal Affair and We got to meet all her in laws for the first time and we got to revisit her Mom's Family... There was a lot of Dancing at the Reception... BIG FUN... This was a Traditional Jewish Wedding and we all wore Yarmulkes out of respect... 

That Reminded me of Attending Martin and Adrienne's Wedding on a Boat in Long Beach Harbor. We Danced the "Chair Dance" where Four Men Held a Chair in the Air with the Bride sitting on it... That's something I've Never done before... 

Victoria and I stayed at the World Famous Laguna Hotel... It was "The Place to BE" during the Silent Movie Era and Charlie Chaplain Partied There... It was Elegant and WAY out of my price range but... Since someone else was Paying... I really had a Great Time... We also walked around downtown and saw the Many Art Galleries... after all, It's Famous as an Artist Colony... 

Greg Vanderlaan and a sculpture of 
"The Laguna Beach Greeter"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiler_Larsen

Looking North at the Beach from our Hotel Room

Looking South at the Beach

Looking at The Hotel from the Beach

People playing Volleyball on the Beach

Surf Patrol

Anti War Protest

Of Course, Laguna Beach is MOST Famous for being the Home of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love... They were the chemists that made "Orange Sunshine" LSD. They also Hired the Weather Underground to Break Dr. Timothy Leary out of Vacaville Prison and helped him escape to Africa to go Live with Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther... 

One thing Dad told me was: "Scots Wah Hey, We Wallace Bled." In English: We are Scots. Men of William Wallace. (Braveheart-Mel Gibson)

He also bought me a book: "Born Fighting" by Jim Webb about the history of the Scots/Irish in America. Remember the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd? That's our people!

Toy Fire Truck in Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos, California...  My Wife and I...

In the 1990's I often drove around with my Dad. One time we were cruising down Vista Ave near our home and he said "At least I raised you right, that man's son became a "Merry Prankster"...and he pointed to a neighbor's house. I have forgotten who the boy was but I'm sure he was older than me... more like my big brother's age. And definitely NOT Neal Cassady. He lived in a Different part of Los Gatos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady

I was living in Willow Glen at that time and Working at Radio Shack and he would often come over an we would get a cup of coffee and sit on a sunshiny bus stop and "solve the problems of the world". He often wrote letters to the editor and they usually got published in the San Jose Mercury News. One letter recommended putting a stop light on Almaden Expressway at a dangerous intersection and soon the city installed one there. Saved some lives...

Copies of the Famous Sculptures of THE CATS
in LOS GATOS, California

My mom's family lived in "The Heart of the Willows" and I remember going to Christmas Parties there. My uncle made apricot white lightning and I would eat an apricot, get drunk and then dance with my cousin. The adults thought it was funny to have small children experience sexual desire before puberty... HA HA! The way he made the liquor was to fill a mason jar with pitted apricots and rock candy (sugar) then pour in vodka. Set that jar on a shelf for a year and the liquid was nearly 100% alcohol.

He also went to a bar named "Chick Letty's" during prohibition. Willow Glen was an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County just outside the border of San Jose. The laws were not enthusiastically enforced in the County... Decades later I went to the same bar and purchased illegal marijuana in the parking lot. SO, nothing has really changed... He bought illegal booze and I bought illegal reefer...

Mom's grade school has been recycled as a Senior Center and Dad went there to participate in their bus trips to Eureka. It was a voyage to the Bear River Casino in Lolita but he just used it as a handy way to travel to see me.

One time when he visited we went on The Hammond Trail in McKinleyville to look at the Mouth of the Mad River. It is visible from a park bench there. We had a long and meaningful talk about Mom. I'm really glad that I got sober and became my Dad's friend in the last years of his life. I was drinking heavily when Mom died and missed that event. OOPS! Mom worked as a secretary in Fisher Junior High School Library in Los Gatos and Lexington Elementary School. The kids loved and respected her. Dad proposed marriage to mom on the top of the hill behind the Novitiate in Los Gatos. There is a trail that goes to Lexington Reservoir and from the top you can see all of Santa Clara Valley. (Filled with apricot trees).

I did experience Aunt Alberta's last years. Dad bought a Television at my Radio Shack store and we drove over to her house and installed it in her bedroom. She had a TV in the living room but when she became bedridden she spent her entire time in the bedroom. I remember that I wanted to explain to my Cousin Dian how to use the remote control but she said hat it didn't matter because Aunt Alberta couldn't tell one station from another. She was taking morphine at that time but hated it. Too much nausea...

Grandpa Malek worked as a carpenter (general contractor). He would build entire houses. Mom's family would live in the houses while they were being built and then move on to the next house when grandpa sold it. Our family house on Hedding Street in San Jose was built by grandpa. We had to move because it was under the flight path for airplanes to the San Jose Airport and the entire neighborhood became uninhabitable when JET airplanes were invented. We moved to Los Gatos and the house was put onto a truck and moved to Almaden. The house was valuable enough to justify moving it instead of simply tearing it down. Grandpa became a carpenter right after the 1906 earthquake. He was living in Oregon when the call went out for all able bodied men to go work rebuilding the city of San Francisco. He also built a house on "The 17 Mile Drive" a neighborhood of palatial mansions in Carmel. Mom, Dad and Grandpa built a Redwood Deck on the back of our house in Los Gatos in 1960. The deck is still there today. https://www.pebblebeach.com/17-mile-drive/

Grandpa Vanderlaan worked as a minister. During the 1930's the people that attended his Church had NO MONEY to put in the collection plate. Ministers feed their families with the money from the collection plate. Grandma, dad and uncle Marc went camping on the Trinity River because there was good fishing, hunting and NO RENT. Dad and Uncle Marc were very good at fishing and hunting during the 1930's because that was a major source of food. During the great Depression Grandpa came to the realization that God did not exist. So he quit his job with the Church and became a math teacher. He also was a founding member of the Humanist Society. It's an alternative to Christianity. My dad was an atheist until the day he died. My brother became a Unitarian and I became an Acid Head. Grandpa Vanderlaan wrote a book about Religion... I tried to read it a couple of times but got bored in the early chapters and never finished it.

We went to Christmas parties at Dorothy and Leland Lea's home in the hills behind Oakland. My cousin Gary and I would play guitars and sing. Gary also played the family piano and the drums in a rock band of his friends from high school. Leland had a huge collection of tiny liquor bottles. The size they give you on an airplane... Surprisingly, after Leland passed away Gary sold the collection to someone on the internet. Before he shipped them to the customer he emptied all the bottles and poured the booze down the sink. It's illegal to ship liquor across state lines but empty bottler are Legal...

Gary Lea taught me about the Visual Mantra he used to quit smoking tobacco. Whenever you had an urge to smoke, think of the O'Neil Surf Shop Logo and remember that if you don't smoke you will have a longer life and more opportunities to go surfing... Good Idea!

We went to Sacramento on Thanksgiving to Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg's home. They had two daughters, Robin and Jill. Uncle Marc became a criminal defense attorney in Sacramento and Aunt Peg was a Social Worker. Jill became a lawyer and moved to Seattle and Robin went to work at Uncle Marc's Law office. One time a client of Aunt Pegs did a Bank Robbery and was holding hostages. The police called her and said that the only person he felt comfortable talking to was his social worker... She negotiate the release of the hostages.

Martin's wife Patti took me to my first AA meeting at Lake Tahoe. Thanks! It allowed me to live a lot longer.

I remember going to Martin and Adrienne's wedding on a Boat in Long Beach Harbor. We wore funny hats (Yarmulke) and I danced holding up a chair the she sat on.

I remember going to Nicole's Wedding in Laguna Beach. No chair dance that I remember... It was at a really elegant Golf Course and we had a lot of regular dancing... We met Brodie's Family for the first time. Martin bought us a Hotel Room at the fancy Hotel... it was where Hollywood Film Stars wen to party in the era of Charlie Chaplin. Big Fun! I also got to go to an Anti Iraq War protest march at the Beach. Every year we had protest marches in Eureka and I was afraid that I'd miss out if I went to Laguna Beach... But the people there hated the Iraq War Also!

Anti-Iraq War Protest in Laguna Beach, California

Gregory Vanderlaan and a Sculpture of the Laguna Beach Greeter

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html 


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My first Wedding - Part of my Autobiography...

 Jo-Ann and I were living in a Duplex in Santa Clara, California and She was working the Graveyard Shift at National Semiconductor Microprocessor Division and I was working at System Industries. I had to close up the house before the wedding because we were not coming back for a week and accidentally cut my arm on a window that I was trying to close. It had a crank that was not functioning well and I just pushed on the pane of glass which broke. I got blood on my WHITE TUXEDO. I had a small scar on my left wrist for years. It was a joke that day - people kidded me about slashing my wrists to commit suicide instead of marrying Jo-Ann. We were married in Mission Santa Clara. The Mission was very cool and dark. As a Student at University of Santa Clara she was allowed to use the Mission for her Wedding. Any religion was allowed... When we met the Minister he asked me the date I was Baptized... I guess that's a common fill in the blank question... and I told him I had never been Baptized as I was an Atheist... He was Shocked! but performed the ceremony anyway. It was July 4th, 1976. The wedding was a BIG Production affair with invitations, registered gifts at Valley Fair Shopping Center - Emporium and Macys, little bags of Almonds in a Hard white sugar Coating, and Bridesmaids in Matching Dresses, Grooms in White Tuxes, Joe Franck was my best man, I wanted Barry Hill but he was Busy at work as a Park Ranger and Couldn't attend. We then rode in an open Model T Ford to a room where there was a Country and Western Band playing for our reception. Then we drove to the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco and had a drink in the revolving restaurant on top. Excellent view of the fireworks in many cities. Berkeley, Oakland, Sausalito... you can see very far... Then we drove to Canada, camped outdoors in a forest of trees with white blossoms. I had a hay fever reaction to that plant and had a stuffed nose. Then we rode the Pacific National Exhibit Roller Coaster. It was really scary and you have to hold on tight to keep your seat. We also rode a Bicycle built for two in Stanley Park... I remember the name of the Park was Lyons Gate... Maybe i was thinking of the Bridge there... Then we stayed in My Mother in Laws Mansion in Pollack Pines near Lake Tahoe. It was under construction and we slept in a walk in closet in sleeping bags. I remember that we drank a lot and I liked going out to the street and lying down to watch the Stars. Elevation 4,000 feet - almost no city lights... and the smell of the sugar pines was strong... There was no danger of getting run over by a car. You could see the lights approaching about five minutes before they got to where we were. 

It is fun to write my autobiography... it makes me remember all the events of my life... My first wedding was quite an event! The Bicentennial! July 4th 1976... My brother attended but made sure he told me that he was MISSING a Giant Sailboat Event in New York City... where he lived... and I had to pay him back by attending his Daughter's wedding in a SUIT and SOBER...  

READ MORE AT: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Remember: NONE of the Hijackers on 9/11 wore a Towel on His Head... Currently, There is a LOT of Propaganda Telling US to Hate "TowelHeads" but, in Fact, Funny Hats are Not Limited to Islamic Suicide Bombers...

Look at the POPE, HE's got a Really Funny Hat, A Conehead!  Look at the Ladies in England at Royal Weddings... TOTALLY BIZARRE... How do Other People at Those Wedding Manage to NOT Laugh Out Loud? and... The Pink Cowboy Hat worn by an American Congresswoman...

On July 4th 1976 I got married to JoAnn Humphrey. (The Bicentennial), Casa Valhalla and the Tonga Room at the Fairmont...

 We spent our wedding night at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. After we checked in we made love and then the hotel provided champaign... Then we had drinks and dinner at the revolving restaurant on the top of the building watching fireworks shows over the bay. Different cities had different shows and we were spinning around at a speed of one revolution every half hour. The windows showed different views of different cities as we went along. This hotel is famous for glass elevators overlooking the big indoor garden space...

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On my 21st birthday JoAnn and I went to Casa Valhalla in Sausalito. It was an elegant dining room with a black piano player similar to the movie "Casablanca"...

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With my parents in the 1960s we had drinks at the "Tonga Room" in the basement of the Fairmont Hotel. It was a bar designed around the hotel's swimming pool. They had a floating barge with a swing band and the tables were under thatched roofs like a tropical island resort. They turned on sprinklers in the roof and that simulated a rainstorm... Flashing lightning and thunder made us feel like we were outdoors in the South Pacific. This hotel also had outside elevators on the side of the building.

Read More of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

When I was working at the Postal Service Engineering Department there were many immigrant employees that I became friends with.

 Since the USPS did not require a Secret Clearance from the Department of Defense, it was one of the few places that an immigrant draftsman could work in the Washington DC Area. One Friday night three of us went to New York City to attend a Hindu Wedding. I drove... We stayed at an apartment building in the Bronx. The entire multi-story building was filled with Hindus from around the world. They had a temple in the backyard. There was a lot of "Sacred" food to be eaten and supposedly we would be insulting our hosts and the Gods if we refused to eat it. The Groom was coated in a yellow colored spice (Saffron). He had a bad allergic reaction to it... I ended up eating much more than I wanted to. On the night before the Wedding we went to a Hindu Disco and danced. Some of the people my friend was related to lived on one apartment building and some lived in a different one. We had to walk the women from one building to another because the neighborhood was dangerous and they feared getting abducted... So whenever a woman wanted to go to the other building, we escorted her... At the wedding an old woman played the drums... My friend was from Guyana, South America... a former British Colony. His ancestors were imported slaves from India. 

The third person in our adventure to NYC was a black American man. His mother lived in NYC and she was the owner of a Rastafarian Bar. We did not get to visit because the air conditioner in the bar was broken. Too bad... It would have been an interesting place to visit. Another draftsman at the USPS was a man my age from Vietnam. He said that when he was a child he watched the American Bombs exploding and he thought they were pretty. I'm not making this up. 

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html