The Hicks-In-Suits Hatefest continues in the General Assembly. The House of Representatives passed the anti-gay-marriage amendment yesterday, sending it to the Senate, where passage is not certain. If the amendment passes the Senate, N.C. voters will decide in the May 2012 primary election whether to add the amendment to the state constitution. The Senate is expected to debate the amendment today.
If you follow Boomer with Attitude, you know we are strongly opposed to this shameful, blatantly and deliberately discriminatory amendment. If you have time today and tomorrow, please consider contacting Mecklenburg’s Democratic state senators. The amendment can’t be passed without some Democrats going along with the GOP, so a reminder of their constituents’ feelings on the issue could make a difference. This state has made a lot of progress in the past two or three decades in terms of education and playing cultural catch-up with the modern world. Let’s not let N.C. slide back into the Jesse Helms-ish, ignorant-and-proud-of-it mire of our past history. Here are our county’s Democratic state senators, and their contact information:
Malcolm Graham (919) 733-5650 Malcolm.Graham@ncleg.net
Charlie Dannelly (919) 733-5955 Charlie.Dannelly@ncleg.net
Daniel G. Clodfelter (919) 715-8331 Daniel.Clodfelter@ncleg.net
Here is a video of excerpts of Democratic representatives, arguing against passage of the amendment yesterday in the General Assembly. Rep. Pricey Harrison of Greensboro was particularly poignant (starts at around 1:15), while Rep. Verla Insko of Orange County (at 3:54) schools the amendment’s supporters about living the Christian faith those supporter say they’re following.
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2011.
Keep the aggressive gays out of my bedroom, they won’t be satisfied til they have it all. Just go to any jail.
Daniel7: When was the last time “aggressive gays” (male or female) stormed your bedroom uninvited??
-j in Charlotte
Heck no, thanks for the contact information because I will implore our state senators to keep the bill moving until it is passed and part of State law.
Heelheat, I guess you should enjoy your little moral superiority fetish while you can before your kind are extinct. It won’t be long.
It’s done. What a shame for this state. Whatever happened to doing the right thing? How does one couple’s relationship affect you in any way, shape or form? Is your disgust and hatred so large that you can’t just let people alone to live their own lives, in their own way? So much for less government. A truly sad day.
Get it off the ballot, we don’t need to give the libs a reason to vote.
Isn’t it amazing that these shameless, disgusting dolts who call themselves conservaties and oh yes christians, are the first to yell about too much government.. and yet they seek to control everyone’s lives.. the first to boast how godly they are.. and the first to show what a bunch of bastards they truly are. Regardless of their efforst to stop ALL people from having the right to marry.. this wall will also crumble.
How does a couple’s relationship affect you?
Try asking that to the Innkeeper in Vermont who is being sued by the ACLU because he declined to host a gay marriage reception.
Try asking that to the bridal shop owner in NJ who is currently being picketed because she refused to sell two wedding gowns.
Indeed, every DJ, caterer and florist should be on notice: cowtow to the LGBT agenda or else.
And that’s just the first ripple in the gay marriage pond.
Bigots should be subject to legal action, Phrasy.
Nothing wrong with those cases at all.
Or should the law only protect straight people?
The passage of this bill is a gross shame and black mark against North Carolina which hopefully either the North Carolina Supreme Court or the Federal Supreme Court will rule unconstitutional thereby overturning the law there as well as laws across this nation.
The laws which governed those being sued date back to the 1960s when blacks were struggling for their civil rights that were taken back by such bigots as apparently you. Blacks at that time could not stay at hotels or even go into restaurants that catered primarily to whites (and that were the majority of people back then). Anyone engaged in interstate commerce MUST extend their services to anyone who requests them and that also applies to Inet businesses.
Everyone has equal rights under the US Federal law but folks like you have taken them away just as the white bigots took away the rights of blacks, unlawfully, when President Hayes became President. I have often visited North Carolina and been glad to do business there. If this bill becomes law—I will boycott North Carolina just as the NACCP has South Carolina and encourage others to do the same. North Carolina has a high unemployment rate and yet wishes to sustain this unemployment rate by passing discriminatory laws. I am reminded of what Rev Niemoller said in 1945—all you Hispanics who are so against gay people need to take heed here because when the rights of anyone are taken away —yours could be next.
“First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Most of you on in the comments thus far need to have their marriages abolished and then forced to move to a foreign country where you are discriminated against for at least 20 years so you can learn what equal rights means. Shame you were not around in 1939 when Hitler backed Krystalnacht which took away the rights of Jews and sent them packing to be burned at the death camps and you should have been among those sent.
I believe it is only American to extend equal civil rights to all Americans.
That’s a pretty liberal thought there David, better dial it down a bit before the CL conservitard bloc jumps you.