North Carolina Senate Surprises Absolutely No One By Voting To Put Marriage-Equality Ban on Ballot
Thanks to a 30-16 vote in the Republican-led North Carolina Senate, the state’s citizens will now get to decide whether LGBT couples in NC deserve the same legal protections afforded everyone else! Our prediction? No!
@Cam: The state where gays hate straight white males so badly that they stood in front of the Duke lacrosse house holding “Castrate” signs because of the rape claims of one psychotic female. Could you IMAGINE if they’d done that to a black sports team?? But, in NC, they make their own rules on what’s fair.
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In 1971 astronauts walked on the moon for the third time, Nixon was president, Intel released its first “microprocessor,” the WTC was completed, Ryan White was born…and North Carolina finally gave it’s first marriage license to a mixed race couple.
North Carolina. Representing the 19th Century.™
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@Chancery:
The democratic process should indeed be perverted by stripping a minority’s rights by plebiscite because two idiots filed false police reports.
What a well-conceived, perfectly reasonable argument.
Go fuck yourself.
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@the crustybastard: Right. And even NC gays showed how evil they are. It’s a sick state. And how about that Bishop Eddie Long ! Another one. I get nervous just flying over it…the plane might have to make an emergency landing and I’ll be…..shudder..
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I live in NC and wasn’t able, and am not able, to get upset about it …
As has been the case in all matters related to civil rights, North Carolina will be forced to treat its residents equally only when ordered to do so by a federal court.
This state is run by white, mean, “Christian” people.
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The two fatsos Jesse Helms and man-hating Pam Spaulding….look, I could go on and on with more and more examples to express my personal disdain for that state, and my feeling that gays there deserve what they get for their past actions, but it’s only my own opinion. I’ll cease now, and not hijack the thread.
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In order to advance the bill to the Senate, Republicans needed the cooperation of 6 Democrats. They got 10.
In the Senate, the Republicans possess 31 seats and needed 30 votes. Once again, they worked as a bloc without defections. Had Democrats worked as a bloc without defections, the bill wouldn’t have made it to the Senate.
I don’t blame Republicans for advancing their agenda. I blame Democrats for advancing the Republican agenda.
In short, this bill is the Republican’s baby, but it’s the Democrat’s fault.
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Yet another state that will write discrimination into its constitution. Does anyone seriously hold the delusion that it’s possible to defeat this when it goes to the polls? I say we not waste our time or effort. More important to focus our efforts on equality where we can get it, not on fighting losing battles in loser states.
And I say that coming from Michigan, which has one of the worst amendments – no recognition possible under any name.
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Well, just another state I will avoid sending one thin dime to. Let them stew in their own piles of pig and chicken sh*t (before it washes into the rivers and ocean). Try avoiding industrial meats and tobacco – it’s a major NC export. I guess I’ll have to boycott my family reunions on the outer banks from now on.
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The gays in NC deserve this? Are you kidding me? Way to make broad generalizations about a group of people, JUST as the Republicans and all of the “Christians” did by helping this bill pass! Gays are obviously just as vicious to each other as any of these people. Don’t blame everyone in my home state for this bill, blame the representatives that voted to put this on the ballot. Y’all aren’t even the ones being affected by this passage, anyway. Bitterness isn’t going to win the battle against discrimination. Give the gays of this state your support, not your hateful words.
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WELL STOP COMPLAINING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT