North Carolina trying to ban all gay unions

[Zostrianos]

The same state that brought us the "beat the gay out of your child" preacher, is also trying to ban not only gay marriage, but all same sex legal unions
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[TheGodlessUtopian]

Often happens when conservatives feel threatened. They will go on a rabid attack against even those events which remain separated from their religious nonsense.

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

Oppression in the name of merciful Jesus (pun intended). This is a good example on how the ruling class implements religion as a Divide and Conquer technique. They continually use adjectives to further separate those who they rule. We're currently seeing race, religion, income, and now sexuality, as a weapon to deter unity for whom they control.

[Prometeo liberado]

The same state that brought us the "beat the gay out of your child" preacher, is also trying to ban not only gay marriage, but all same sex legal unions
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My friend had the gay beaten out of him so hard by his father that it came out and 360'd back in again. You gotta be carefull with that stuff.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Marriage as it exists in the bourgeois era is a repressive institution, so I don't really care.
Back in the 90s social liberals co-opted the gay LIBERATION movement and have turned into a thing that is just about marriage, the same way they co-opted the black liberation movement a few decades earlier. When an oppressed minority threaten the status quo, it's the job of liberals to teach them their place. They took the liberation out of gay liberation, and they turned the black worker's struggle for human rights into one for civil rights.
I don't care about gay marriage. I care about sexual liberation, and that doesn't involve marriage in it's bourgeois form.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Marriage as it exists in the bourgeois era is a repressive institution, so I don't really care.
Back in the 90s social liberals co-opted the gay LIBERATION movement and have turned into a thing that is just about marriage, the same way they co-opted the black liberation movement a few decades earlier. When an oppressed minority threaten the status quo, it's the job of liberals to teach them their place. They took the liberation out of gay liberation, and they turned the black worker's struggle for human rights into one for civil rights.
I don't care about gay marriage. I care about sexual liberation, and that doesn't involve marriage in it's bourgeois form.

Liberals had their part to play, of course, but the reason for the current battle to attain entrance into the failed institution of marriage doesn't have to do exclusively with Liberals but more to do, rather, with AIDS. Once the AIDS pandemic had devastated the Queer community practice dictated that in order to better survive the gay community reorganize away from non-monogamous, unsafe sex, and more into the lines of monogamous relationships.This way the spread of disease was stifled and thus allowed the gay community to continue fighting.

From here,since the community has already organized into the typical nuclear body it was not a long shot to go after marriage.After all,if you are in a closed relationship than why not have the same rights as the heterosexuals? It is here that liberals capitalized on this new goal.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Sickening, just sickening. All of this.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Marriage as it exists in the bourgeois era is a repressive institution, so I don't really care.
Marriage may be that, but I think the wrong line to take is that you don't care if LGBT people have equal rights in the society we live in right now.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

My head hurts with the insanity and irrational chest beating of these fucking homophobes...if you're so concerned about gay unions or any kind, then don't enter into one..they're not gonna invite you to the fucking wedding, what do you care? You'll 'go to heaven' and we'll all burn in hell, worry about your own sexual conduct, worry about your own morality...fuck

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

You know, land of the free.

[Veovis]

Marriage as it exists in the bourgeois era is a repressive institution, so I don't really care.

Tell that to this woman (http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/04/30/a-heartbreaking-picture-of-discrimination-is-worth-a-thousand-words/) who is being separated from her wife and daughter because the federal government doesn't recognize her marriage as valid and has decided to deport her.

[Left Leanings]

I wonder how long it will be, until they really try and turn the clock back, and actually make it a criminal offence to engage in homosexual activity. This used to be the case in the UK. It still in is in many countries of the world, Uganda being one of them.

This sort of reactionary shit needs to be reisted and met head on. If the bigots are successful in this endeavour, they will go further if and when they can.

[Tim Finnegan]

Oh, but it gets better.


The wife of a North Carolina state senator reportedly told poll workers during early voting Monday that an amendment sponsored by her husband was intended partially to protect the Caucasian race.

Jodie Brunstetter is the wife of state Sen. Peter Brunstetter (R), a supporter of Amendment 1, which would change North Carolina's Constitution to permit only heterosexual marriage.

According to the alternative Yes! Weekly, writer and campaigner Chad Nance spoke to a pollworker who told him that Jodie Brunstetter said, "The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce."

Nance has volunteered for a group working to defeat the marriage amendment and was until recently the campaign manager for a Democratic candidate for Congress. Nance resigned from the campaign to speak about Jodie Brunstetter's alleged remarks, according to Yes! Weekly.

Nance also spoke to Jodie Brunstetter, who said that she had used the word "Caucasian" in discussing the amendment, but that her remarks were taken out of context.

"We are looking at the history of the United States and it is already law about what marriage is," Brunstetter told Nance, according to Yes! Weekly. "Between a man and a woman."

"I'm afraid they have made it a racial issue when it is not," Brunstetter said of the poll workers. Pressed on whether she had used the word "Caucasian," she said, "I probably said the word," but that she hadn't used it in a race-related manner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/north-carolina-gay-marriage-amendment-1_n_1470956.html

[TheGodlessUtopian]

^Already covered it, see thread in same forum.

[Tim Finnegan]

Oops.

[Zostrianos]

And unfortunately (but not surprisingly) North Carolinians voted to ban gay marriage (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/08/north-carolina-vote-gay-marriage.html?cmp=rss)