Comments on: NC voters divided on gay marriage ban

By: OBXlocal

OBXlocal — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:49:44 +0000

Let me start by saying I’m a straight, Southern Baptist raised (I no longer go to church) North Carolinian and am 100% pro gay marriage. There are many people who feel the same. Those who are against it are usually torn because they feel allowing gay marriage would be abandoning their Christian faith. But Christian ideologies are changing (thank God)- and there is a noticeable shift- now there is a willingness to question tradition.

The South really does have hospitality and charm-

So if you think when you cross the border you immediately have to pick up your Bible, Budweiser and Confederate flag. Shed your Lacoste, educated vocabulary and BMW for a wife beater, southern drawl and pick-up truck. And trade your tinted windows and nice rims for over-sized tires and a shotgun rack- well you’re mistaking NC for Bush’s home state Texas.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:45:28 +0000

I can see why you would think that point, but maybe this will help you.

Most university towns are very liberal, even without the students. They are more educated populaces.

Chapel Hill – UNC
Raleigh – NCSU
Durham – Duke
Charlotte – UNC Charlotte
Wilmington – UNC Wilmington
Asheville – UNC Asheville
Greensboro – UNC Greensboro
Davidson – Davidson College
High Point – High Point University
Etc. etc. etc.

Plus, the Triangle, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, is a tech corridor and has become big time on the east coast. That group tends to be more liberal.

CHarlotte has so may gays that there is a small and growing gay district.

I am not saying it is perfect, but it is changing out of a changing people. So, I see it as completely possible.

By: Scott P.

Scott P. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:55:54 +0000

Confederate,

I was raised to be polite, so, after you!

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:39:46 +0000

Sorry dont believe this poll. If this is true, then NC is socially to the left of CA. Garbage.

By: Fredrick Bertz

Fredrick Bertz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:04:53 +0000

I would not believe this poll. In the past few months, the people who were organizing the No on Prop 8 campaign in CA allowed community activists full access to their internal polling which showed that we had little chance of winning. Most of the public polling had us either in a dead heat or slightly ahead. Therefore, I can no longer trust polling on this issue. The only poll that really counts, anyway, is the final vote.

By: Gerry Fisher

Gerry Fisher — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:54 +0000

I think it’s *amazing* progress that gay marriage is polling at 50% in NC. I’m not saying we’d win, if it goes to the voters. But those poll numbers are similar to the final vote tally in CA.

Yay!

Tiiiiiime, is on our side.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:30:46 +0000

Why change the constitution if they already have all these laws?
They have made their point: Marriage is only between men and women.
I’ll take civil unions and domestic partnerships any day. It’s not as if we lose anything, the feds still won’t recognize us if we have “marriage.”
I’m considering moving to North Carolina in the future. Don’t ever move to Arkansas if you’re gay, it will eat your soul.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:56:40 +0000

Forgot to tell you, Carrboro elected an openly gay mayor a few years back. And they liked him a lot.

So much so, they elected his partner a few years later.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:55:08 +0000

Well, Alex, Asheville is very very very liberal. And it is a very gay friendly town. The surrounding areas are a different story.

But, and this is a big but, locals take a while to warm up to yankees. So, always say thank you, sir and ma’am and not just to leather people. Learn that barbeque is only only only pork. You grill at home. Krispy Kreme are a Carolina invention (My home town of Winston Salem) and hush puppies go with seafood and bbq.

Oh, yeah, grits aren’t supposed to be sweetend. Okra is a mainstay. And when you ask for tea it is automatically on ice and sweetened to a think syrup.

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:04:19 +0000

LMAO!!