Monday, September 12, 2011

North Carolina's Gay Marriage Fight...

...and it's meaning for Obama.

Via Los Angeles Times:

But it's not all Priuses and lattes in the state that gave the world NASCAR and Jesse Helms, and putting a gay-marriage issue on the same ballot as a presidential contest is a well-established GOP strategy to turn out social conservatives.

It could still have some juice, even in the age of Gaga and "Glee."

"There's no doubt that there would be some advantage in motivating voters for Republican candidates," Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the Associated Press, adding: "We are polarized on this."

Also, N.C. city, county leaders protest proposed anti-LGBT amendment

UPDATE: Breaking News: Bigoted North Caroline House Quickly Passes Constitutional Amendment Banning Recognition of Same-Sex Unions

RALLY PROTEST 9/13/11!!

2 comments:

becca said...

don't know much about polotics but if gets equal rights for everyone i'm for it

Writer said...

Well, it looks like the North Carolina state government is going to push this sadly through. :(