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Pab Sungenis's JournalFallout on marriage amendment hits local tourism Sam Walker | May 10, 2012
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2012/05/10/fallout-on-marriage-amendment-hits-local-tourism/More at the link. Avoid the comments.
Repeating a statement made elsewhere, so it doesn't get lost.
If you don't support LGBT rights, then you don't deserve to be a Democrat.Period. I said it and I will not back down from it.
Please consider for a moment, what if these had been the remarks made.
And what you're seeing is, I think, states working through this issue-- in fits and starts, all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that's a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level.
If it had been that women should be able to terminate a pregnancy, but it should be left up to the states to decide the issue, then would celebration be warranted?
Calling queers names? Still okay on DU.
Wonder how many of these jurors would have voted to "LEAVE" Amendement One "ALONE."
Obama is on our side. He knows he has to WIN REELECTION first.
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"powdered, puffed, pampered, pooed, pottied, wooed, and flattered" - if this isn't blatant homophobia nothing is. And if this isn't hidden there is no justice on DU.
JURY RESULTS
A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Wed May 9, 2012, 02:09 PM, and voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT ALONE.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: The paranoia of the word police around here is getting absurd and disheartening and I wish people would settle the fuck down and grow up. Leave this post alone.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: I don't know whether the poster meant the post to sound anti-gay. But the wording does sound homophobic, intentially or not. I would suggest reposting the sentiment without the slurs.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: well, that was fucked up. hide it.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: There is no way to know from the post whether the author is him or herself gay, and if he or she is, then the post would be self-identifying group admonition. If this post is "blatent homophobia," then virtually every act and word from Rupaul is as well.
Thank you.
It's just so incredibly frustrating.
What? The defeat in North Carolina? That's part of it.
The real frustration is how many people in the Democratic Party (a) don't care, (b) are staying silent, or (c) agree with the vote.
After sharing the latest outrage in "you're not really married" land, my nerves were on edge to begin with. Today I'm floored.
Change.org petition: "Democratic National Convention Committee: Move the Convention OUT of NC"
https://www.change.org/petitions/democratic-national-convention-committee-move-the-national-convention-out-of-north-carolinaMr. President: move the convention.
Do not force members of the party that actually believes in equality for all to patronize the state that has gone further beyond the pale than any other to date in enshrining bigotry into law.
Don't force us to patronize the state that passed a law written specifically to "preserve the Caucasian race."
Don't force us to acknowledge, accept, and silently condone their hatred.
There is no teachable moment here. There is no cheek left to turn. You say you're evolving? Well, North Carolina is devolving even faster than you are evolving.
Don't give us one more reason to be angry and frustrated with you. Make a solid statement now. Let us vote with our feet and our wallets.
Move the convention out of Charlotte.
Tell me again that civil unions are the equivalent to marriage.
My husband, Bryan, lost his job in early April. He filed for unemployment and was granted it. Since then he's been jumping through all of the necessary hurdles to not only look for another job, but to be able to prove that he's looking for another job.
Today he was on the phone with a lady from the State Department of Unemployment, filing for the past two weeks. We developed static on the phone he was speaking on, so he switched to the extension in the basement and had me hang up the upstairs phone. When the click of my hanging up the other phone was heard, she must have asked if he was still there. His response? "I'm still here, I just had my husband hang up the phone with the bad wiring."
Well, that started a whole shitstorm. He had to repeat all of his identification information over again. Then I heard "no, I am a man." A pause. "Yes, I am married to another man. We live in New Jersey and have a civil union." Another pause. "No, I am NOT Bryan I---'s wife, I am Bryan I---." Pause. "I do not have a wife. I have a husband."
Mind you, this is not some large corporation he's talking to, or some little mom and pop store in Oklahoma. This is a state government office, which should have some concept of State laws.
Finally, he hung up and stormed upstairs. He informed me that the woman had cancelled his entire unemployment claim, and he was being forced to drive into town to file a new one on purpose. Why? It was "obvious" that the claim was fraudulent, filed by a woman and her husband using identity theft.
So now we have no money for the six weeks it's going to take to file, verify, and reassert his claim. Plus we're probably going to have to fend off a state police investigation of the "theft" of Bryan's identity by him since no one with a high pitched voice referring to "her" husband could be a 44 year old man.
So tell me again how civil unions are the equivalent to marriage.
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