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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Keep It Classy, North Carolina
What's up, readers? Welcome back to the blog. And now, a moment with Mitt Romney...
"Mr. Romney, Mr. Romney, a follow-up from Facebook fan 'IThinkHard'...what makes you the right candidate for president and how do you plan to address the current economic problems?"
"Oh, come on! This is supposed to be a low-ball question! Aren't there other issues people are concerned about, like whether I wear boxers or briefs???"
It's good the Romney "addressed" same-sex marriage, because that leads me into this week's vote in North Carolina. 1.3 million people across the state voted to approve a change to the state constitution that will define marriage as "one man, one woman." 800,000 voted against. While I have minimal issue with voters speaking their minds, I do have a couple of problems with the passage of this vote. First, the state already bans gay marriage. This just ties judges' hands if they ever want to okay same-sex marriage. So it's basically North Carolina's equivalent of crashing a NASCAR into a homosexual person...having it accidentally set that person on fire...then pulling that bottle of Jack Daniels out of the passenger seat and pouring it all over the person, just to make SURE they know not to get out in front of your car. It's adding insult to insult. Second, the law means Mormons will not be legally recognized as "married" in the state...because, you know, the law says "one man, one woman," not "one man, twenty women." Finally, I have an issue with the interviews I heard before the vote with the people who supported making the law say "one man, one woman." I heard a lot of "No, no, don't get us wrong...we LOVE the gays. We just think we should do what the Bible says." Really? That's like going to your ancestors 150 years ago and hearing them say "No, no, don't get us wrong...we LOVE the black people. We just want to chain them up so they don't run away." It's still discrimination based on personal beliefs, not the Bible. Actually, I think I was most surprised that BLACKS seemed to oppose gay marriage more than whites. You'd think THEY'D know better than to discriminate against their common man. Love thy neighbor. Quite frankly, everything else in the book is probably a little archaic by now. I mean, come on...the book's 2,000 years old without evolving. Heck, even the DICTIONARY compensates for current reading! And if you're going to live life by the Bible, go by the whole thing, not just the parts that allow you to look down your noses at people who are different. Here's Jon Stewart's take:
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