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I work in tech. Notice there are not too many high tech companies in red states? Did you notice that? Did you notice the voter turnout in the Triangle area? They did not support Amendment One at all. IT is lucrative and progressive. If you think attacking gays will attract high tech companies, you are sorely mistaken. You might attract some really nice button factories though.
Not just gay and lesbian couples and families but heterosexual defacto couples and families as well.
Or do these people seriously not realise what "the only legal domestic union that is valid or recognised" really means?
For couples in NC to have any sort of validity or legal recognition now, they MUST be married.
So if a heterosexual person works for an NC based company which previously offered health insurance coverage for their defacto heterosexual partner and children...... guess what?
How many heterosexual non-married defacto couples/families are there are in NC?
I could choose to be gay but do not - so I have chosen to be straight. You have chosen to be gay - there is no "gay" gene. Sexual orientation is a choice and therefore homosexuals cannot equate themselves with people who have bene historically persecuted because of natural characteristics such as gender or skin color.
It amazes me that everything you have posted in this thread is completely wrong. Did you even read my article as you said you would? If every animal species on Earth has gay members, it's not a choice.
It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by genetic factors (Mustanski et al, 2005) and/or the early uterine environment (Blanchard et al. 2006). Sexual orientation is therefore not a choice, though sexual behaviour clearly is.
Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait.
The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex.
The differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early infancy, says Ivanka Savic, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
California is an 'extreme religious' state? New Jersey?
Some parts of California are actually really socially conservative. That doesn't make the state overall conservative. "Red" and "blue" happen in pockets smaller than the size of states.
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It amazes me that everything you have posted in this thread is completely wrong. Did you even read my article as you said you would? If every animal species on Earth has gay members, it's not a choice.
Gee, you mean the homosexual behavior observed in say dolphins for example isn't the result of some left-wing, commie-pinko, unionized dolphin teachers pushing their gay agenda on young dolphins?
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man,"
The Supreme Court declared it a civil right. Therefore, by law, it is. Again, please get an education. You are impossible to take seriously with such a display of pure ignorance.
"As other states recognize marriage equality, Washington's employers are at a disadvantage if we cannot offer a similar, inclusive environment to our talented employees, our top recruits and their families. Employers in the technology sector face an unprecedented national and global competition for top talent. Despite progress made in recent years with domestic partnership rights, same-sex couples in Washington still hold a different status from their neighbors. Marriage equality in Washington would put employers here on an equal footing with employers in the six other states that already recognize the committed relationships of same-sex couples - Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. This in turn will help us continue to compete for talent." Marriage Equality in Washington State Would Be Good for Business - The Official Microsoft Blog
You can read about other corporations endorsing gay marriage below:
You may have "won" tonight (although it seems odd to be gloating about winning an election that ensures that a minority will be deprived of a fundamental civil right), but 50 years from now, people will look back on you and people like you the way we look back on segregationists today.
and what right is that (if you mean the right to marry no one took that away from them they can still get married to a member of the opposite sex)
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