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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:44 AM May 2012

Wife of NC State Senator says Amendment One is necessary ‘to protect the Caucasian race’ [View all]

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/05/02/wife-of-nc-state-senator-says-amendment-one-is-necessaryto-protect-the-caucasian-race/

…Nance paraphrased the remarks, as told to him by those who were present: “During the conversation, Ms. Brunstetter said her husband was the architect of Amendment 1, and one of the reasons he wrote it was to protect the Caucasian race. She said Caucasians or whites created this country. We wrote the Constitution. This is about protecting the Constitution. There already is a law on the books against same-sex marriage, but this protects the Constitution from activist judges.”

Nance said he recruited a friend, who works for the Coalition to Protect All North Carolina Families, to witness his interview with Jodie Brunstetter. He said Brunstetter reluctantly acknowledged that she had used the term “Caucasian” and then repeated the statement previously attributed to her, but substituted the pronoun “we” for “Caucasian. Nance said Brunstetter insisted there was nothing racial about her remarks, but could not explain why she used the term “Caucasian.”

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I rarely resort to emoticons, but words fail:

On edit: Amendment One is the Marriage = 1 man 1 woman (anti-gay marriage)
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We had a similar "bozo moment" up here TrogL May 2012 #1
I self-deleted my thread on this HillWilliam May 2012 #2
da nada TalkingDog May 2012 #26
None of us are really surprised. What they should dmr May 2012 #3
What an idiot! David in Canada May 2012 #4
Marriage = 1 Man/1 Woman ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2012 #5
Assuming Caucasian Man and Woman.....Caucasian babies? yellowcanine May 2012 #13
Unmarried caucasian man + Unmarried Caucasian woman = Caucasian babies, too ... No? n/t 1StrongBlackMan May 2012 #23
Kicking again HillWilliam May 2012 #6
So, is her logic that if we force gay white people to marry straight white people, they'll bullwinkle428 May 2012 #7
No Aerows May 2012 #15
We have a winner HillWilliam May 2012 #30
So, If You're Black, Hispanic, Asian, Then Gay Marriage Is Okay??? Yavin4 May 2012 #8
Exactly treestar May 2012 #28
My mother-in-law, when she was alive, Baitball Blogger May 2012 #9
Since 2008, bighuge red money has been flooding in HillWilliam May 2012 #11
I wish you the very best. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #12
Don't leave NC Alcibiades May 2012 #21
As it happens, I live in rural-but-very-blue HillWilliam May 2012 #27
There's always Vermont. Alcibiades May 2012 #31
We do love Vermont, but there's a couple of big problems HillWilliam May 2012 #32
I much prefer the weather in Vermont Alcibiades May 2012 #34
We're 45-50 minutes away from Duke HillWilliam May 2012 #35
Gay people are people Alcibiades May 2012 #36
"Brunstetter insisted there was nothing racial about her remarks." Well ok then! yellowcanine May 2012 #10
Keep this in mind Aerows May 2012 #14
+1. DevonRex May 2012 #29
Protect the caucasian race from what exactly? Rex May 2012 #16
Hey lady you got a drop of African blood in ya! nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #17
Hopefully, this will boost turnout against. Passed an overpass with a vote no banner this morning. mmonk May 2012 #18
Pfft. Obviously "caucasian" isn't racial. Beartracks May 2012 #19
Our State House has been taken over by the biggest cabal of lunatics. paparush May 2012 #20
This is no longer Jesse Helms' North Carolina Alcibiades May 2012 #22
It's a losing battle. ArtiChoke May 2012 #24
This type of thinking is precisely what is seroiusly wrong our world. Dont call me Shirley May 2012 #25
The racism... still overt in the Republicans sakabatou May 2012 #33
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