In case you missed it, be sure to read Professor Maxine Eichner’s opinion piece that ran today in Raleigh’s News & Observer. 

That’s how long those who believe in freedom, tolerance, love and progress now have to overcome the forces of repression, intolerance, hate and ignorance in North Carolina.

Let’s not waste a minute — let’s seize control of the debate and never let it go by branding the so-called “marriage amendment” for what it is: An amendment that would enshrine discrimination, limit freedom, stifle economic development and, as Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt put it in his eloquent and folksy speech today, allow one group of people to put another group of people at the “bottom of the barrel.”   

Now that caring and thinking North Carolinians have had this fight thrust upon them, here’s a vote for giving it back to the other side with such force and energy that they find themselves regretting the day they launched this new culture war.

This morning’s editorial in Raleigh’s News & Observer does a good job of capturing the essence of the special session/hate fest taking place in the state Legislative Building this week.  

“This is a misguided cause, mean and vindictive and discriminatory, motivated by a cold-blooded extremism. At a time when Republicans should be trying to prove themselves as leaders, they are doing just the opposite.”