Comments on: NC GOP again tries for anti-gay amendment

By: SickofHaters

SickofHaters — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:20:08 +0000

i dont care let them beat the dead horse til they all are completely broke! if the american public is that STUPID to keep letting lawmakers WASTE TIME on US (didnt realize i was so important) then it will be their own demise!

GAY PEOPLE SAVE YOUR MONEY, BANKRUPT THE ECONOMY, LET THEM STAND in FOOD LINES and THEN SAY TO THEM, “This must be God’s Punishment” All the money they spent on Prop 8 and other Special interests and their “Agenda” they could be feeding and clothing all the starving ppl. in this country and around the world. their God will have his Wrath on them just as they preach!

Thats what they say about us.

For the person that says he has “nice” NC relatives… I have lots of “nice” relatives accross the south, like most of them that is to your face, until they get in Church and the Voting booth, right shoog or aint that right HoN?

By: Frankly

Frankly — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:12:31 +0000

I disagree. North Carolina is the perfect place to make our stand. It is not as backwards as it used to be. And the number of Universities in NC make it a viable candidate for spreading the truth. Furthermore, it would be the most incredible thing to take the state of Jesse Helms and Billy Graham for our own.

If more queers move to a smaller state like NC, then we aren’t as diluted. And we have more political might.

By: Veronica Onassis

Veronica Onassis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:20:17 +0000

I think that we as a community are wasting our time fighting against local governments controlled by the Republican Party. Our quest for equal rights should instead be ventilated in the United States Congress. We as American citizens deserve the same privileges. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual communities are also tax paying citizens, a fact that the religious right wing is obviously not acknowledging. I am sickened, tired and angry that we must shout to get the position in society that we rightfully deserve. When fabulous becomes permanently furious at this system we will get results for our cause.

By: DRIII

DRIII — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:34:40 +0000

I am an advocate for diversity and gay rights and marriage blah blah. And I as think that this bill is not needed. What will we gain? People will still date who they want. We make law against all kinds of thing and they still happen. You cant monitor EVERYONES life. COME ON! When are we going to learn that we cant dictate everyone’s life? Ugh. I just don’t see the problem. If they get marriage what is going to happen to YOU. It doesn’t effect you. And people can throw around the dumb argument about homosexuals and AIDS and STD’s blah blah. Wake up call. Heterosexuals have THE SAME DAMN PROBLEM. Get over it. Will live in the land of the freedom. If you believe gays go to hell, at least there not Raping little children or slaughtering hundreds of people on a college campus. If you are so worried about sparing peoples lives and helping them find Christ help the people with the REAL SINS like MURDER.
And North Carolina, worry about all the kids who are living in the streets and the parents who can’t provide for them. Focus on the thousands of people out of work. Make strict law on companies getting over on their workers and cheating them out of health care and insurance. Im sure, out of all the crisis in North Carolina you can find another law to pass.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:40:57 +0000

I have some North Carolina relatives. Some of the North Carolina people I’ve talked are nice folk, friendlier and than some of the Northern folk I’ve met.

By: Daniel S

Daniel S — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:10:08 +0000

Yet another reminder to anyone who erroneously believes Election Day is what settles all issues.

By: drewski

drewski — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:32:50 +0000

North Carolina is choking on growth. It’s becoming less backward and is assuming a leading role in the South. All the NC GOP has to say, with foreclosures and job losses and all our other needs, is that they have to stop those pesky gays from marriage? At this time, in any state, that kind of move makes you irrelevant. And the crazy thing is, many of these wingnuts would rather be defeated, marginal, wingnut true believers with no pull in the system, then to acknowledge somebody else’s basic right to exist on terms the GOP didn’t craft. If they’re so certain they’re about to be raptured, could they at least stay off 485 from now on so they don’t leave everybody else stuck behind those empty cars?

By: RICK

RICK — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:03:44 +0000

“NOT ENOUGH?” “NOT ENOUGH?” WHAT THE HELL,,,,,,,,, IS WRONG IN NORTH CAROLINA??

By: Sean Martin

Sean Martin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:57:06 +0000

How nice to know that everything else in this state has been solved so the Republicans can waste more of the Legislature’s minimal seating time for this kind of grandstanding nonsense. It’s crap like this that’s the reason they lost big time in the last election, and they just havent figured it out — and yet they seem to think they’re in some kind of position to govern again?

What a bunch of maroons…..

By: Frankly

Frankly — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:20:53 +0000

It has failed two time before.

Rich:

North Carolina is the First southern state to elect openly gay officials to city, county commissions, the general assembly and was the first state to have elected an openly gay mayor. Then, his city elected the former mayor’s partner as mayor subsequently. The cities of Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington,Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, and Chapel Hill are becoming increasingly gay friendly.

I grew up in NC and am a proud Tarheel in the traditional sense. And I will give you that there is a lot of redneck and conservative people in NC. I have a lot of family that goes that way. But there are a lot of good people in NC and they are changing. So, don’t say that my home state sucks.

Unlike the liberal and progressive states of FL and CA, NC defeated the amendment two times before.