EDIT: Wow! Front page!
Sorry, forgot this isn’t Reddit. 
As long as institutionalized bigotry and hatred doesn’t effect Rand Rover, eh? Unless it’s you on the end of the mob of mouth breathing idiots’ vileness, it doesn’t really bother you.
And I loved how you threw in the old “if they don’t like it, they can move” canard.
You’re a moron.
I always thought he was a bit classier than that too…I’m pretty sure he’s just a puppet for his kids at this point though.
Billy was far from classy when he agreed with Nixon’s antisemitic rants and then lied about it for decades until the tape was released.
Thanks! I used the wrong word, apparently.
The amazing thing about Amendment 1 is that it doesn’t just preclude gay marriage, but civil unions. I can understand - emphatically not “agree with,” but understand - how one could honestly say “I bear homosexuals no ill-will, and wish them well - but ‘marriage’ is a specific label for hetersexual relationships, and I find it distressing to apply it to anything else.”
But I can’t understand banning civil unions as anything other than pure malice - not just misguided fundamentalism, but an actual desire to keep people from visiting their sick loved ones in the hospital. That’s even more bizarre than opposition to gay marriage, imho.
…kind of a cross post and likely not at all Pit worthy, but in jtgain’s thread he links to this article.
Not being familiar with the subject or the poster, and given the oblique OP, I looked at the lead picture and thought Gay Marriage Had Been Legalized IN N.C.! (Mary Frances Forrester and Tami Fitzgerald make a cute couple.)
I am very disappointed in you, people of North Carolina.
My family is from North Carolina and I am really bummed that this thing passed.
And bummed for my family, my 86 year old mother has been campaigning heavily against Amendment One as she was in tears when it passed-------------she even made her nephews register to vote so they could vote against it…and by “made” I mean she drove them to the polls when early voting started and made them go in and register and vote NO as a condition for continuing to live under her roof.
So it sucks sucks sucks but don’t tar all NC residents with the same brush, there were a lot of NO votes.
I know, my in-laws live there, and had an anti-amendment yard sign.
I’m certainly disappointed in anyone who voted Yes on this, though.
North Carolina barbecue is, as I understand it, pork.
No matter how you feel about the issue, I’m not sure this is cool.
Are you talking about the folks who wrote the Amendment, or the ones who voted for it? Because I’m wondering how many voters would’ve split the difference if given the chance to vote up-or-down on two separate items – but who are so distressed by gay marriage that, well, given a choice to ban both or ban neither, they’ll vote to ban both.
I don’t think I could have said it better myself (except the male part). This is another big, unfortunate step backwards.
Seen on Facebook today:
“If you have to make a law that hurts a number of people just to prove your morals or faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.”
I didn’t expect it to fail, but I also didn’t expect to be as angry as I am, either.
Not legal, not ethical, and not cool.
To my fellow North Carolinians who voted for this absurd piece of shit:
Next time you want to inflict your hateful bullshit on people that aren’t doing anything to you, why don’t go play in traffic instead.
Well, she made 'em say they voted “no,” anyway.
Infographic courtesy of the Guardian ought to help.
It hurts me to say this, but I think this is an unfair response to what RR said. He thinks it’s a state issue, the state made their decision—not the decision he would’ve made personally—and as a non-resident of the state there’s not much he can do at this point but commiserate.
I don’t necessarily agree, but I don’t think he deserves to be the thread’s honorary whipping boy and stand-in for the NC jackasses who did vote the amendment through.
Now please, for the love of God, never make me defend **Rand Rover **again.
On the plus side, no doubt the gay community will immediately stop smoking, since purchasing American tobacco products inevitably funnels a lot of dollars into the conservative areas of NC politics.