Wife Of Key Legislator Behind NC’s Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian' Race

[Scuba]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/02/475141/brunstetter-caucasian/

The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in the state — claimed earlier this week that her husband advocated for the measure to protect the “Caucasian” race.

Jodie Brunstetter, the wife of North Carolina state Sen. Peter Brunstetter, made the remarks “outside the early voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem” while speaking to voters, Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist, reports. Nance heard about Jodie’s comments from an African-American poll worker who allegedly overheard Brunstetter say, “The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce.”

Asked to clarify her statement, Brunstetter reluctantly confirmed that she did in fact use the phrase “Caucasian”:

[MNBrewer]

1. So, then, only let non-white homosexuals get married?

Force the white ones to procreate at gunpoint.

[d_r]

2. wtf

The older I get, the more amazed I am at the number of representatives at the state and federal level who are either nuts or idiots or both.

[rurallib]

3. Gosh what a great poster that will make.