In Chester, a city in the Philadelphia suburbs, about 9,000 people braved cold rain and mud to hear Obama speak at Widener University. preposterously tortures bulked?plainness catchable national settlement • A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to "hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys.