Hmm...read TFA, and I still can't see exactly where he was coming from (the wife is who was quoted, but she was apparently repeating what her husband had said). He makes some vague noise about it:

...one of the reasons he wrote it was to protect the Caucasian race. She said Caucasians or whites created this country. We wrote the Constitution. This is about protecting the Constitution. There already is a law on the books against same-sex marriage, but this protects the Constitution from activist judges."

Uhm...ok. But how is that suppose to protect white people? And from what, exactly?

Quasar: So a journalist says that a poll worker said that the guy's wife said, paraphrased, that the bill was to protect the Caucasian race. Gotcha.

The poll worker recorded the conversation apparently.

Cyberluddite: kid_icarus: Uhm...ok. But how is that suppose to protect white people? And from what, exactly?

I think she was probably just recycling the same arguments they used 35 years ago in trying to ban interracial marriages--as tends to happen on this issue--but forgot to update a couple of pages of the playbook.

So I guess you'd have to go with "less white babies being born". In this particular case, apparently because they fear more white men and women will turn gay and not reproduce if they can marry a same-sex partner. If denied the option of gay marriage, though, they'll be more likely to stay straight, marry an opposite sex partner and reproduce. Got it...

You know who else wanted to protect the Caucasian race?

Cyberluddite: kid_icarus: Uhm...ok. But how is that suppose to protect white people? And from what, exactly?

I think she was probably just recycling the same arguments they used 35 years ago in trying to ban interracial marriages--as tends to happen on this issue--but forgot to update a couple of pages of the playbook.



Pretty much. She forgot to bring up the antichrist as well.

Because the gays will go all out and have 12 black babys per marriage... ???

/sense it makes none

Wait a second, are they implying that if we ban same-sex marriage, homosexuals will instead choose to marry someone of the opposite sex and have kids?

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I guess that makes slightly more sense than "Ban gay marriage because our courts can't handle gay divorces"

just for this bill I am going to go out and find two gay individuals of mixed race and force them to get married...

Uncle Ben is still protecting the White Rice, right?

coeyagi: No, apparently the message is if the homosexual can't marry his or her kind, he / she - if white - will automatically go and marry someone of the opposite sex and different race in order to spite the white race.... oh shiat, that won't work. I guess we need Amendment Two - ban mixed marriages!

Unlike the banning of same-sex marriage - the Supreme Court has already killed that idea.

Conservatives are both homophobic AND racist?

Get back to me when that becomes newsworthy rather than obvious.

Awesome. I don't know whether to be glad that these shiatstains don't feel like hiding it anymore. They're so scared and so desperate, that they're falling all the way back to racism and racial purity to justify their social positions. I guess I'll know how to feel about it come November.

She meant that if gays get married they might vacation in the Caucus mountains which will interrupt their annual marathon, a tradition dating back to the early 19th century.

This is actually pretty remarkable and important. Has anyone found a better source than a KOS article quoting a journalist quoting a poll worker?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I Said: An anti gay racist republican. Non-story, move along.

Snark aside, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get out of an article about the wife of a single legislator from North Carolina who said some stupid sh*t.

(Now, if the rest of the NC legislature passes the bill, maybe I'll be more concerned.)

They did. That's how it got to be a ballot referendum.
BTW, the "single legislator"? He's the guy who wrote the bill.
Concerned yet?

dog bites man story

Oh dear Lord (/facepalm)! Just when you think that the rightards can't outderp themselves, they surprise us all with just how subhuman they really are. They're like cartoon caricatures of right wing republicanism.

Is it from the eight years of empowerment under the Bush regime, or a giant fit of WHARRGARBL brought on by the notion of a black man in the White House?

I've known the right wing to be a brutal bigoted fascist death cult, but they at least had the minimal intelligence and awareness of their surroundings to try to hide their more disgusting traits out of concern of a backlash. But lately, they cannot seem to contain themselves.

I can only shudder in horror to think what these frenzied creatures will be capable of in four years from now, or even next year if Romney wins the election.

One of my buddies aunts lives in NC and she posted something on Facebook today about supporting the amendment. I responded, "If you think folks are sinning, let GOD deal with it. The law should have nothing to do with it." She responded, "crickets".

Maybe she's in a meeting and she's going to try to explain her bigotry later today.

cmunic8r99: I'm so looking forward to voting against this stupid amendment this afternoon.

I shall be voting against it on the 8th here as well. This amendment is just plain ludicrous and a waste of state resources.

Maybe we should ban Palin pregnancy's to save the Caucasian race?

Jackson Herring: The race has historically consisted of a 26-mile horse ride at top speed, followed by a slow and dejected walk back to the starting line.

and includes lots of complaining about how life is meaningless anyway.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: (Now, if the rest of the NC legislature passes the bill, maybe I'll be more concerned.)

Out of all the recent Prop 8-style bills taken to the public vote, have any of them not passed?

TV's Vinnie: s it from the eight years of empowerment under the Bush regime, or a giant fit of WHARRGARBL brought on by the notion of a black man in the White House?

That's all it took. After eight years of a Republican White House, Congress, and Supreme Court (and eight years of non-stop FOX derp), it took just four years of a black President for these people to utterly lose it. "Me" generation of boomers, indeed.