Tag: LGBT

House Majority Leader lectures on “morality,” “biology” and more!

August 30, 2011 at 2:16 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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Picture of Paul  Stam

Narrow-minded, backward-looking and mean-spirited ignorance of the lowest order were on full display at the General Assembly today.

The occasion was a press conference conducted by the numbers two and three Republicans in the House, Representatives Paul Stam and Dale Folwell, to support their plan to amend the North Carolina constitution to ban marriage between same sex couples (something that state law already prohibits). Read More…

The religious right’s bigoted message on marriage

August 9, 2011 at 1:34 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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You have to love the zealots over that the religious right — sometimes the obliviousness they display is truly stunning.

A case in point: The most recent edition of the North Carolina Family Policy Council’s “Family North Carolina” magazine which includes the following consecutive stories: Read More…

New poll shows absurdity of anti-gay marriage laws

August 9, 2011 at 11:17 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Public Policy Polling has an interesting poll out on Vermont that brings home once again how absurd the anti-gay marriage crusaders are (and will be viewed in a few decades when all of the states finally get around to making gay marriage a right). 

This is from the post:

“Gay marriage has been legal in Vermont for almost 2 years now and most voters in the state say it’s had no impact on their lives. 60% say it’s been a non factor for them personally to 22% who say it’d had a positive effect on them and 18% who say it’s had a negative one. Read More…