Out With The New, In With The Old

Just in case you’re still feeling uplifted by last week’s historic inauguration, NC Republican Rep. Paul Stam is here to pull you back down. Not only did he try for the umpteenth time to change the rules the NC House works under, he did so in order to constitutionally bar same-sex couple from marrying. Poor old Stammy wants to be able to make tough decisions, just wike the big boys, the committee chairs.

Stam turned to the Defense of Marriage Act, which would constitutionally prohibit same-sex couples from marrying, as an example of why he’s upset the majority party is hogging all that pain.

‘We’re the only state in the Southeast without a marriage amendment,’ he said, owing to the bill not being heard ‘because of these rules.’”

Waaaah. Same-sex marriage is already illegal in North Carolina, but not illegal enough for the Staminator. His marriage apparently needs more Tough D, because the scary gays are out to … what? Attack it? Subvert it? Colonize it? What’s he afraid of, exactly?

In these ridiculously grave times, the fact that Rep. Stam has even a minute to spare whining about non-issues is surprising. The good thing about it is that it shows how mired in yesterday the state GOP remains. I bet there’ll be no love – of any kind – for people who want to waste time on problems we don’t have when election time rolls around again.