North Carolina approves amendment to ban gay marriage with 58% vote! (Barack Obama, party)

[Cinebar]

Originally Posted by InTheNameOfGod

Let me guess, you are liberal?

Let ME guess - you're a bigot?

[Dale Cooper]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Do you have any evidence to support this outrageous claim? And how do you jive the claim with the fact that many Republicans are not religious and many Democrats are religious? Faith or lack of faith in a supreme being or religious system is not based on political viewpoints.

Furthermore, NC is a blue state.

Oopsie. There's goes that nonsensical theory!

lol

[JazzyTallGuy]

Originally Posted by tim6624

Good news from North Carolina!

The culture wars are far from over in this country, actually, they are just beginning.

Eventually same sex marriage is going to be just another part of American life.

The biggest bloc of peoople against same sex marriage are older Americans. The biggest advocates of same-sex marriage are younger Americans.

It's just a matter of time.

[Seacove]

When Republicans justify their hatred against gays with the Bible, when they quote scripture as a basis for discriminating against a minority, when they use religion to harm those that are not religious, they are legislating religion.

[MJJersey]

I don't even understand why this is "new". They put a gay marriage ban to a vote in a conservative state and it lost. Big surprise. It would be like putting integration to a vote in Alabama in 1930, no one would expect the majority of people to vote for it.

[LeftyTrav]

Originally Posted by 9162

Prop 8 has been struck down in California on very solid ground.

Yeah....they found one of their gay judge buddies to overturn it.

Once it goes to the SCOTUS, and gets the permanent axe, we'll see how chipper you are then.

[Hot_Handz]

Originally Posted by A Common Anomaly

Just more evidence that people live in fear. What other consensual adults do and call it is none of your business and won't affect your marriage in anyway.

You call it fear....I call it AWESOME

[9162]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Next, Republicans will try to legislate religion as a requirement.

No, they'll just create another tax loop-hole for church goers. Having the churches tax free, and ignoring the legality of separation of church and state is not enough...

[bc42gb43]

Originally Posted by Dale Cooper

Boy, that's the truth. If they were so educated and rational, they'd get the heck out of Boston, NYC, etc.

As a New Yorker, this was one of my favorite Onion articles of all time. I can relate to many of the anecdotes in it.

However:

I'll take the beauty of small town Tennessee, low taxes, no forced diversity, and a laid back lifestyle over those cities any day of the week.

No forced diversity? What the **** is that? I have a hard time reading that as anything other than "I just don't want to live near more than a small percentage of minorities that I'm already personally comfortable with."

[bolehboleh]

Originally Posted by bc42gb43

As a New Yorker, this was one of my favorite Onion articles of all time. I can relate to many of the anecdotes in it.

As a Bostonian, I hate having to take the side of a New Yorker

As they say, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."