Gay people didn’t go anywhere after N.C. vote

[mmonk]

Say, didn’t we just vote to get rid of those people?

Well, how come there’s a bunch of ’em marching down the middle of the street?

A week after North Carolina voters joined the 19th century and 30 other states by voting to approve a constitutional ban on gay marriage, you can still see gay people working, walking down the street, at the gas station and at the mall.

Why, a couple dozen of them and their supporters gathered for a rally in Raleigh on Monday to protest what they see as a homophobic vote and to serve notice that they aren’t going away.

-snip-

James Miller, executive director of The LGBT Center of Raleigh, appears to have been prescient when he told me after the vote that jobs protection would be one of the next targets.

-snip-

Callers have told me how some black preachers, not content that their side won by a large margin, thundered from the pulpit Sunday that their parishioners should vote against President Obama in November’s general election. Vote your Bible, one said, not your pride.

Obama’s sin? He thinks gays should have the right to marry. He didn’t say they have to marry, or that they should marry or even that you yourself had to marry one. He said they should have the right to do so if they wanted to.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/15/2064396/saunders-gay-people-didnt-go-anywhere.html#storylink=cpy

[geckosfeet]

1. "Vote your Bible, one said, not your pride. "

My "bible" says vote for Obama.

WWJD mr. preacher man?

Fa king morans.

[mmonk]

2. I wonder if they will wake up

if employment laws are the next target? I'm tired of this seemingly non stop walk towards fascism.

[asjr]

3. It does bring to mind the 1930s of Germany.

[mmonk]

4. Absolutely.

It was a little more gradual than many think but it was a steady march after democratic institutions were weakened.

[RKP5637]

5. I wonder how they'll feel if some got their way and pushed to repeal the

Civil Rights Act of 1964. It always irks me when anyone says equality for me, but not for them. People have short memories.

[mmonk]

6. It's because their churches push the idea it

is a behaviorial issue not right with god and work to dehumanize gay and lesbian persons.

[RKP5637]

7. It's sad and unfortunate, much like the burning of crosses in the 60's to me, when

people of color were dehumanized.

[mmonk]

9. Since my dad was a veteran of World War II and saw horror

first hand in Europe, I have always been mindful that dehumanization of others is a definitive first step to gas chambers and crematoriums if never addressed.

[RKP5637]

10. I recall as a kid being so shocked by the images, how could anyone do that

to other humans, but as I've grown older I've realized sadly those people capable of doing this are still with us. Often, I think America today does remind me of 1930's Germany. I am constantly appalled at the hatred in America today, for almost anything. I do fear in my remaining lifetime, this country could well take a horribly evil turn.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I seen one of those African-American preachers against marriage equality on Hardball last night

When questioned he admitted he voted for McCain last time and Bush before that.

Don