Community | March 01, 2011 | 17 comments

North Carolina Marriage Equality Opponents Want To "Put A Big Letter Of Shame On The Behavior" And "Perversity"

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Republicans in North Carolina are hoping to pass a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, even though gay and lesbian couples already don’t have the right to marriage under statute. One leading proponent of the ban believes that an amendment, which could potentially be included on the 2012 ballot if it passes the legislature with three-fifths of the vote, would pass because “the public in my opinion knows the difference between perversity and diversity” and that residents “don’t want them here.” The News Observer reports:

Supporters of a bill that would ask voters to write a ban on same-sex marriage into the state Constitution say it has its best chance at passage since they started pushing for it in 2004.

Sen. James Forrester, a Gaston County Republican, has filed the bill consistently for nearly a decade, but the proposal never made it to a full vote. Democrats held control of both the House and Senate for most of those years.

With Republicans now controlling the legislature, Forrester is looking forward to hearings and a victory.

"I think we have enough votes to get it passed," he said. Republicans hold majorities in both chambers, and similar bills in past years have drawn bi-partisan support.

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The state already has a law banning same-sex marriage, but supporters of the constitutional amendment said the law isn't enough. The law is vulnerable to changes by future legislatures, Forrester said, or to a judge who thinks it's wrong.

The amendment "prevents a liberal judge from saying 'no,' " Forrester said.

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Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James, a longtime supporter of the ban, said the amendment would make a moral statement.

"The purpose is not just to prevent Massachusetts people coming down," he said. "It's also to put a big letter of shame on the behavior. We don't want them here. We don't want them marrying. If you're going to do it in San Francisco, it's your own business."

In an e-mail last week, James predicted easy passage. "Bet it will pass with over 60 percent," he wrote. "The public in my opinion knows the difference between perversity and diversity."

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17 comments // North Carolina Marriage Equality Opponents Want To "Put A Big Letter Of Shame On The Behavior" And "Perversity"

  • mitekillem
    • 0
      mitekillem  

    • Wow..........wow.

      The the Senator was islamic, and wanted to do this because it was a part of Sharia law, it would be a big fracking wake-up call.
      Christians would oppose it because it was islamic....even though it's something that they would be for, otherwise.

      This is why we have separation of Church and State.
      We need to stop electing Christian Fundamentalists pushing their agenda into law.
      Law and Religion need to be separate.
      Government has no right to dictate marriage. It's a religious and cultural rite.
      Declare them all Civil Unions for tax purposes, and be done with it.

      Then leave it to individual religions to recognize a marriage.
      As far as everyone else is concerned your "husband" or your "wife" will just be your partner/spouse...whatever.
      Two men, or two women getting married is not going to change the price of tea in China, and it's not going to cause global catastrophy.

    • 1 year ago
  • dinm76
  • PeteLeS33
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      PeteLeS33  

    • Seriously, with all the shit that is going wrong with the country and economy all these rethugs can think of doing is shove this Culture War nonsence in our faces?

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
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      bike10  

    • So much for need for jobs and the economy by the GOP. Back to social issues and big brothers in personal lives of the citizens. By way any gay Republcians in NC?

    • 1 year ago
  • randallr01
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  • UtopianSky
  • randallr01
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • unimatrix0
  • bambuu
  • Varex_Sythe
  • OrchidBlack
  • PzLuvHappeniz
    • +5
      PzLuvHappeniz  

    • These people are the ones that preach about keeping the government small and nonintrusive but they also advocate using the government to control very private facets of people's lives. Fucking hypocrites.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • littlwarrior
    • +8
      littlwarrior  

    • c.s lewis said it better than i ever could so here's what he said. "Of all the tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busy bodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometime sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

    • 1 year ago
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