North Carolina’s Ban on Gay
Marriage Appears Likely to Pass
By NATE SILVER
On Tuesday, North Carolina will vote on a
state constitutional amendment that declares, “Marriage between one man and one
woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized,”
thereby banning recognition of same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic
partnerships of any kind.
Both recent polls of the state and an
analysis of past ballot initiatives in other states suggest that the
measure, Amendment 1, is likely to pass, although there
is ambiguity over the outcome because of voter confusion about what the
amendment seeks to achieve.
North Carolina already has a statutory ban
on same-sex marriage, but it is one the few Southern states that have not yet
changed their constitutions to ban it. Although all three are sometimes
considered Southern states, there is also no constitutional ban on same-sex
marriage in West Virginia and Delaware, and same-sex marriage is legal in
Maryland. However, the other 10 states in the former Confederacy all have
constitutional bans on same-sex marriage and sometimes also civil unions.
Ok I had to add this article to this blog because most of
us do not understand complex wording that the government places before us.
Personally I think they do it on purpose to confuse us. So amendment one does
NOT support same sex marriage or civil unions. Wow what a fight. It almost
seems like blacks having to fight for their rights to be treated like humans,
or Jews fighting for their right to be Jewish when in fact they or any other
color or race should never be treated as anything less than human. The
government should have no right what so ever in saying whom can and can’t marry
unless of course it has to do with minors. Really, how can anyone tell someone
who to love, or that it is illegal to love someone?
So many people in general and so called Christians have
prejudice against gays, lesbians, religions other than their own, interracial
marriage, illegal immigrants and on and on and on. Don’t you know that they are
THE chosen ones, the know alls, the ones god sent here to tell us how to
live?……….Phooey! The GOD or higher power that I believe in wants so much for us
to just learn how to love each other and set aside our differences.
When it comes to same sex marriage most people honestly
cant think past their imagination of 2 men going at it and are repelled by
that. They don’t see THE relationship, the love that 2 people of the same sex
have for each other. The fact is that there are too damn many people in this
world that never find love and die without ever knowing it!
God condemns gay people; it says it in the bible. Know
what people? God did not write our bible or anyone else’s bible for that
matter, humans did! AND the books of the bible were not written by the people
that the stories are about or at the time that these prophets lived. They were
written by writers 100 or more years after the stories ever happened.
They say “Well they were written by the hand of God and
God does not make mistakes” The books in the bible were chosen by the church
and the only writings placed in the bible were THE ones that the church wanted
so they could tell us how to live our lives by THEIR standards. There were so
many books that were left out of the bible like the book from Mary Magdalene
for one that never made it into the bible for fear that people would know that
Jesus held women in as high esteem as he did men………..go figure Jesus thought
that women were held equal to men, who would have thunk it?
They say “Well the church does not make mistakes” Yea
right and none of the HOLY men in the church like to molest little boys either,
knowing that THAT is a greater sin!
The thing is people, that like it or not, some people are
just born with their likes and dislikes that don’t always mesh with mainstream
society. Maybe its cause a gene went haywire maybe It’s in their DNA or many
other reasons. I guess what I’m getting at is if you want to fight something,
fight domestic abuse, child abuse, rapist, robbers, killers, pharmaceuticals
companies that push pills on the whole human race, drunk driver, taxes,
plastic, pollution, chemtrails , taxes, taxes, OH did I already say taxes? Well
maybe you get the picture. I choose to pick and choose my fights and in my
opinion when I see 2 people that love each other, same sex, different colors,
different religions, short, fat, tall, skinny! Whatever! When I see love
between two people that is not something that I want to fight against but I
want to fight for because as I see it everyone is so different and unique in
their own ways and everyone needs to love and be loved and there are more
important things in this world to fight against. I will never fight against
love.
And one more note quote……Common place minds usually
condemn what is beyond their each of understanding! Comprenda?
Love to all
Namaste
Man made religion, God made spirituality .........Do the right thing.....Be the change you want to see!
This is a next day update. I dont claim to know a whole lot about our bill of rights, I acutally just sat down a minute ago and read them again after being a grown up. Basically they say that you have these rights, we give them to you, they are yours, UNLESS your state wants to take them away. Yes! Amendment 10 says to me that what ever few rights we have written on little sheets of paper called your bill of rights can be removed from you by the state. Oh wait! It does mention the people in there at the very end seeming kind of like an after thought and mentally by way of wording giving that power to the state before the people. Which means to me that we are the last that has a say when in fact the people make the state, just as the people make a church, or a family or a couple!
It says that the state has the right to pick our lives apart if the bigger government hasn't done it already!
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
- To be quite honest I cant see anything in amendment one that says anything about unions between 2 adult people. To me it is in reference to assembly's of more than 2 people and to religion and speech and press, which has nothing to do with love and compassion which in fact is what unions between 2 people are. It is a coming together of 2 lights, 2 souls, 2 spirits and should have nothing what so ever to do with the government.
- When government/state makes the union between to people legal or illegal they are seriously going to far into our lives. These unions will be there whatever the laws, just because they are what they are, unions of love and caring. That my friends is something that no man can take away or should dare to try. We the people have too few rights as it is, why the hell do we want to give more away?
- Giving your rights away is giving your power away and is in effect saying that you are not capable of making a sound decision so someone needs to make it for you.
- This amendment in NC shows prejudice and intolerance and hatred. It says that one person is better than another, it says that the government feels so big, so much more adult than you that they need to act as your parent!
- Im leaving it here cause the more I think of it the more it ticks me off that people in our government dont have better things to do with their time than to pick peoples lives apart! There are just too many more important things on this earth that need to be fixed other than unions between 2 people!
