Don Quixote (05-08-2012), Phantasmal (05-09-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
This just in from Fox News!
"North Carolina voters approve state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage."
Don Quixote (05-08-2012), Phantasmal (05-09-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
RockX (05-09-2012)
Yep, denying equality under the law is always great news! Fuck the 14th Amendment - majority rules, bitches!
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Cancel 2016.11 (05-09-2012), Don Quixote (05-08-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Seems pretty clear to me. Let's see what the Supreme Court has to say about this issue within the next 5 - 10 years. Gay marriage will eventually be the law of the land, whether you like it or not.
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rune (05-09-2012)
Not to me. Your interpretation green lights everything under the sun. That's not what this country is about, and it's certainly not the intent of that Amendment. Hell, even Bill Clinton knew that as even he signed off on DOMA.
Gay marriage will go as fast as it comes. This is what happens when an agenda is shepherded by flakes.
Phantasmal (05-09-2012)
Marriage is anything but gay.
Post marriage is Gay!
Marriage liscences should have to be renewed annually like all other liscences.
Cancel 2016.11 (05-09-2012), Phantasmal (05-09-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
Clinton was a great President, but he was wrong about DOMA. That said, at the time Americans' view of gay marriage was radically different than it is today. Polls indicate that the majority of Americans are comfortable with gay marriage.
Tell me, how do you interpret "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"?
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
DOMA is one of the few things Clinton did right. Americans' view of gay marriage is roughly the same as it was in 1996. if the majority of Americans were cool with gay marriage, then gay marriage would be legal in the majority of the United States. Stop making shit up.
Gay marriage isn't a "protection" issue; it's a "violation of law" issue; therefore, it needs to be stopped.
A violation of law issue like smoking pot?
or underage drinking?
Phantasmal (05-09-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
Banned (05-10-2012), Crashk (05-09-2012), Phantasmal (05-09-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
That's a foolish argument, and conflicts with polling data. Case in point:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8471DW20120508
"Gallup's survey a year ago marked the first time in the poll's history that a majority of Americans - 53 percent - said they favored legalization of same-sex marriage. Gallup first asked the question in 1996, when only 27 percent of respondents supported it."
pwned.
Americans' view of gay marriage is evolving. Sooner or later, it will be the law of the land. I can't wait for that day, if for no other reason than to piss off the Religious Reich.
BRUTALITOPS (05-09-2012), Rune (05-09-2012)
Rune (05-09-2012)
Granule (05-08-2012)
Why shoul dGays be denied their right to divorce?
The Dude (05-09-2012)
I realize that it's a drag, but progressivism always wins out in the end, after some setbacks along the way.
In 100 years, gay marriage will be legal everywhere, and there isn't anything you or NC can do about it...
Phantasmal (05-09-2012), Rationalist (05-08-2012), The Dude (05-09-2012)
I don't know why everyone seems to mis-state things.....
You all mean they banned same sex marriage........gays can marry and that won't change.....
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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