Tag Archives: North Carolina

May 10, 2012, 10:41 am

Obama to the Christian Right (Nervously): It’s On!

President Obama told ABC news yesterday that on the subject of same-sex marriage he has been “going through an evolution on this issue.”

He may indeed be going through an intellectual evolution in his thinking about the rights of gay people to marry. His recent remarks indicate that he has undergone a theological evolution as well. Recall that Obama cast his new-found stance on this issue as a reflection of his Christian scruples (a point I hope to explore in greater detail forthwith).

But permit me now in my capacity as a student of Faith and Values campaigning to point to a third type of evolution in his thinking: Obama’s strategists have completely given up on religious conservatives and concluded that they are irredeemably lost to Mitt Romney.

This observation needs to be properly contextualized. In 2008, Democrats were still reeling from the damage that the so-called…

May 7, 2012, 4:16 pm

Amendment 1, Protecting the ‘Caucasian Race’ and a Whole Lot of Stupid

By Laurie Essig

Amendment 1 is North Carolina’s attempt to stop any and all unmarried residents from having any legal rights whatsoever. This despite the fact that unmarried Americans are the majority of the population.

Amendment 1 defines

marriage between one man and one woman [as] the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.

It would deny any registered domestic partnerships or civil unions legal status.

Billy Graham even got up off his deathbed to urge Evangelical Christians to vote for Amendment 1. Running full page ads in 14 of the state’s paper, Graham urged North Carolinans to vote for Amendment 1 saying:

At 93, I never thought we would have to debate the definition of marriage. The Bible is clear — God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. I want to urge my fellow North Carolinians to vote for the marriage amendment on Tuesday, May 8…