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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."
Oh, you are definitely reading that right, though you shouldn't assume that there is a comfort level with the diversity currently in his vicinity.
It's almost refreshing when a bigot just comes out with it, isn't it?
I'm jazzed about this outcome for another reason: North Carolina is a swing state, and this proves that conservatives are by and large paying attention this election season. Of all years to get conservatives' attention, 2012 is the year to do it in. Leave it to gay marriage to generate that attention. I'm sure voting today felt very good to them......perhaps it will be a feeling they will be eager to relive in November in the pursuit to oust Barack Obama. I think what we've seen here tonight in NC is the opening salvo to what is to be a red state again in November.
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...
True. I fully expect them to try to legalize punching gays in the face next. Think not? A preacher was already recorded instructing parents to punch their four year old if he shows any sort of "less than hyper masculine behavior".
ok, but there is a problem. Whichever side you are on it doesn't matter. We already have 30 states that have outright bans on gay marriage. We also have 7 (or 8?) states that have legalized gay marriage through courts, judges, etc. The problem occurs if & when those (legally) married homos want to move to another state that does not recognize gay marriage.
We are supposed to be the UNITED States. This situation is not fair to either party. Do gays want to be confined to only a few states? Does anyone else see the problem?
Traditionally, people do not vote on the rights of other citizens in this country. Period. This is why slavery was not voted on, or affirmative action, or segregation, or Jim Crow laws or inter-racial marriage. The judges are not "liberal" they are objectively following the constitution. Prop 8 has been struck down in California on very solid ground.
Didn't prop 8 go through a few different courts? How is it then "very solid ground"? And how can you say that the judge was not liberal if another judge upheld the vote. If it was a clear-cut legal matter then it should have never made it to the polls. Do you think the election results would have been overturned if the gays had won?
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