After a rushed and somewhat bastardly move to sneak the anti-marriage amendment onto today’s agenda, a North Carolina House Commitee passed the proposed marriage equality ban to the House Floor. Now “three-fifths of the House members must vote yes twice on the measure before it can move on to the Senate.”
If the Republican led House passes the amendment, it will leave it up to the NC Senate to decide if the bill makes the 2012 ballot. If it does, they will hold the vote in May instead of November to “remove politics” from the vote. Uh-huh. But there is some good news
According to QNotes: “Sources say two GOP senators have excused absences, leaving the body without the votes for passage.” So the vote may not even pass the Senate, leaving NC to concentrate on, y’know, jobs and schools and things that actually matter. Heck, even the NAACP has told state legislators not to vote for it.
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jamie
Now why would the Republicans want to get an anti-gay measure on the 2012 ballot??
Please, can any of the gay Republicans out there tell us more about why gays should join the GOP?
I’m sure that GOProud must be so happy. This measure will help get out the vote and ensure nice Republican laws to protect their GOProud pocket books.
Little Kiwi
GOProud knows the GOP is anti-gay. that’s why they don’t fight for LGBT Equality.
it’s the official group for Americans With Stockholm Syndrome.
GayGOP
I am a Republican because, despite the gay rights issue, I favor most of the Republican Platform, including lower taxes, less government spending, more local control of most things, support for most, but not all of the social conservative agenda (I favor reinstating adultery and fornication laws, marriage and adoption equality, and outright banning all abortions where the mother’s life and/or physical health would be damaged by having the child), and a strong defense that does not go adventuring abroad, unless our own interests are clearly, and directly, at stake (including immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Libya, and a drawdown to nothing in Afghanistan, a reduction in humanitarian aid, and a reinstatement of Fortress America.
Little Kiwi
too bad you vote against all Equality measures when it comes to the ballot, GayGOP.
if you think we should be proud of the work you’re doing “on the other side of the aisle” you’re mistaken.
so go fuck yourself, Uncle Tom. keep sucking up to your lousy parents. won’t make ’em accept you, wimp.
Little Kiwi
GayGOP says “I’m too stupid to realize that the GOP’s financial plans are what always puts our country into debt
the GOP being appallingly anti-gay is on the tip of their shitberg.
you favour lower taxes? i bet you favour lower taxes to the wealthiest percentile, too. and the “freedom” for big business to take jobs away from Americans so they can pay in peanuts in the Third World, eh?
“smaller government!”, except when it means Republican banning gays from attaing Equality. right?
white whiteboy wimps like you are so pathetic i actually feel sad for you.
Robert in NYC
The GOP for smaller government, since when? Clinton left office with a net surplus of $267 billion when taxes were far higher than they are now. His administration created 22 million jobs and the unemployment level was at 3.9% when the manufacturing base in the US was thriving. Enter Bush 43, 8 years of the biggest spending in the nation’s history, huge tax cuts for the corporate elite, more jobs shipped overseas than ever, only a meager 4.4 million jobs created in 8 years, 48,000 factories closed and most moved overseas, two wars that haven’t been paid for to the tune of $3 trillion which they didn’t want to be included in the defici they ran up, and on and on. Then the GOP and Tea Party scumbaggers blame the Democrats for the mess. An republican administration rarely ever leaves office with a net surplus.
What galls me is that gay republicans persistently vote for a party that clearly doesn’t want them to have equality, but then it’s not high on their agenda. GOProud up until recently supported DADT and their darling Ron Paul (a civil libertarian is a republican under another name) now supports states who wish to retain DOMA or enact it.
I wonder how many middle class republicans will forego their social security and medicare when they are eligible? How many republicans in the Senate and the House have already declined their federal benefits package, you know, all that big government stuff, pensions and health insurance for life once they leave office or retire? I also hope the Tea Party scumbags are declining their social security and medicare too, if they’re not, then they should be if they don’t want big government in their lives. Let them show some responsiblity and buy their own, and if they can’t afford to, then their party says, too damn bad, you’re on your own, or as Eric Cantor once said, go find a charity to help you.
Riker
@Robert in NYC: I had to be on unemployment once for a few months. When I got back on my feet and saved up, I wrote them a check for every penny they had given me. They wouldn’t take it back, so I donated it to an AIDS charity instead.
Blender
@Little Kiwi: I wish there was a like button for this comment!
Hyhybt
Interesting notion, putting it on the ballot at the primary. Guess which party doesn’t have a challenger, and so won’t have many voters showing up that day?
tjr101
In essence as indicated by GAYGOP, gay republicans may disagree with their party’s platform on gay issues but when it comes to the rights of women, other minorities and issues that don’t affect them they couldn’t care any less. Talk about selfish, one dimensional and delusional.
Gay Republicans tend to be well to do, white males who wish they were straight so as to fit in with the rest of the narrow minded bigots that is the GOP base, i.e GOProudlings.
SuperCat
It passed. Hooray for democracy.
Of course any judge worth a damn will realize this law does nothing for the benefit of the state and could easily be struck down.
ewe
So North Carolina has proven they are still in the ignorant deep south.