Bigots in NC: Bill Filed to Ban Gay Marriage in N.C.

[tekisui]

North Carolina would add a prohibition on gay marriage to the state constitution under legislation filed this week and met with great fanfare Tuesday by religious and social conservative activists.

However, the fate of the bill filed by Sen. Jim Forrester, a Stanley Republican, and a similar one due to be filed by House backers Thursday is far from certain. Democrats control both the House and Senate and the top leaders in those chambers expressed reluctance to allow either measure to proceed.

“This bill has great meaning to the faith community,” Republican Sen. Jim Jacumin said in a news conference that was well attended by Catholic and Protestant ministers. “This amendment will ensure that marriage will be that which God designed.”

Other backers said there are secular reasons to worry about “nontraditional” marriage, primarily marriages between two women or two men.

It would be possible, they point out, for a same-sex couple to marry in Massachusetts and then come back to North Carolina and sue to be recognized.

“It only takes one liberal judge to overturn our statutes and usher in same-sex marriage without a vote of the legislature and without a vote of the people of our state,” Forrester said.

http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/02/25/article/bill_filed_to_ban_gay_marriage_in_nc

[sui generis]

1. all I know is, when they start paying for my life

they get to make decisions about my life.

Right now though, it appears the bills are coming to me. So I get to say who I live with, who gets my real estate and assets if I croak, and who I consider my legal family.

These fucktard religious freaks need to be concerned about their own lives, and if it will help them I'd like to point out that I react violently to being told how to conduct my personal affairs by some delusional prayin' and swayin' freak.

don't they handle rattlesnakes and speak in tongues or something? Why should they be making laws about other people?

[ccharles000]

2. ...

The state house and senate are in the hands of Dems and this will not pass.

[tekisui]

3. Thankfully.

I am still ashamed that it is even an effort here.

[foxfeet]

4. I wish they would stop referring to these fools a "social conservatives."

"Social conservatives" don't wear white shoes before Memorial Day or after Labor Day. In their most benign form, they actually say and mean, "Please" and "Thank you." In this sense most of us are social conservatives. The people described in this article are plain old bigots and that fact should be neither soft-pedaled nor dignified with a veneer of civilization.