Exactly.

Our enemies must be positively salivating at all of the footage to be gained of “Freakish Homos” twirling tongues and grabbing each other’s crotches–oh yes, there surely were some who did that–and then cut to an image (staged or not) of an “Ozzie and Harriet” family looking horrified and shocked when all they wanted was some lunch.

Image wise: Fundies 1, queers -100000

I’m almost ready to start a betting pool on how fast the first “make-out in the streets” images make their way into campaign literature this fall, especially on GLBT-related issues. And no, this was not a “peaceful activity”; everybody I know who talked of participation couldn’t wait to get out there and swap tonsils in as conspicuous and in-your-face way they could. You know–precisely what we are constantly being accused of doing by the Right Wing. Now they’ll have film footage to prove it.

Even our local LGBT Center’s Director was interviewed about this, and the only parts of his interview that made the cut were “There’s gonna be lots of making out”, with all of the interview relating to WHY this happened cut out.

The Fundies LOVE every image they can find of “salicious homos”, especially in the vicinity of “innocent children”. The media–never interested in the truth, but in reactions–will perform double-twisting backflips to give them this footage, trust me. We’ll be seeing these kisses for a decade at the very least on FOX news every time a gay issue is brought up.

I am a white man with not much hair at all, and I would never in a quintillion years stop to notice her HAIR when there is so much else about her to be F*CKING AWESTRUCK about! It makes me sad that so many have truly sad lives that all they can talk about is this?! And the black women who do it as quoted above–dear god, that’s so depressing.

Go Golden Gabby!!

The interesting thing is imagining if this were a girl and a male adult had strip-searched her. He’d be in prison so fast, your head would spin. Is there a double standard when it’s the female adult and a male child? Yes, there is still outrage, but I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be much worse for a male adult.

The “young ones” aren’t all angels, either–witness the school monitor incident where she was bullied to tears for absolutely no reason by a bus full of middle-schoolers.

That’s well and good, as long as you are consistent and boycott ALL THIRTY states with “marriage amendments”. Otherwise, you’re being hypocritical.

The counties and cities that rejected the amendment are listed in his article and mention by Pam:

Watauga (home to Boone); Buncombe (Asheville); Mecklenburg (Charlotte); Orange and Chatham (Chapel Hill); Durham (Durham); Wake (Raleigh); and Dare (the Outer Banks). You can search on “North Carolina amendment one vote by county” for more info

Because since it is already illegal, it is redundant to go to the trouble and expense to enshrine it into the Constitution.

Still, the TV news almost universally gets it wrong when they refer to “the amendment that would make marriage one man and one woman”. Um, no, that’s ALREADY the case.

What is “POC”?

I waited tables for a little while, though don’t recall any really egregious offenses with tips (though there was the single woman who wrote a check–we didn’t take checks–for the precise amount of her bill and left it, no tip…and nobody has mentioned the large tables that order numerous drinks, expensive food, lots of sides–and *after* they eat/drink it all, complain to the mgr about the food, service, everything, and try to get a free meal (and leave no tip) which in most cases the server has to actually PAY for since we had “tip pools” where we had to pay in a % of our sales for the night).

Regarding the racial “divide”–a friend of mine (white) worked at a large hotel and the weekend everyone dreaded the worst was the [Historically Black university] Reunion. I’m sorry it sounds horribly racist to tell this, but even the hotel started staffing security guards on every floor because there was so much damage to the rooms. And in the restaurant, my friend tells of an African-American waitress on his shift with this almost all-Black dining room who were running everyone ragged. Said waitress came into the kitchen where the rest of the staff was commiserating about how horrible the customers were that weekend, and said “I know none of y’all can say this, so I will: This crowd is a bunch of N___rs”.

Every time something like this happens in Red and Purple states (and NC is Purple, just having an unfortunately turn of Red since 2010), folks in Blueland say “Get the hell out of there!”

Well, you see, the problem with that is, it just makes the Red states Redder and the Blue states bluer, if everyone flees for greener pastures. At the time we need people here to stay and fight the MOST, is when they want to throw in the towel.

I can certainly understand the sentiment, and if it’s a matter of actually losing health coverage or other benefits that can be gotten somewhere else, you gotta do what you gotta do. But the more progressives who leave NC, the harder it will be to change the tide at the ballot box or by lobbying. THEY WIN if we run away (and I know it’s not “running away” to want to go where you are more accepted, I really do). Before this horrible week, (or before the last midterm election, anyway), NC had been poised as an “up-and-coming” state, finally getting recognition for our educated populace (legislators by and large excepted) and GENERALLY great place to live and work. Remember, 31 other states passed anti-marriage amendments before we did–so the “fertile ground” to move TO isn’t necessarily a huge pasture. NC has not been a really “Deep South” state in a long time, though folks to the North love to stereotype us as such, every chance they get, and this week’s news certainly gives them evidence for their views.

WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER, PAM. WE NEED EVERY PROGRESSIVE VOTER MORE THAN EVER, FOR MAY AND NOVEMBER 2012.

I don’t understand why wills, trusts, and end-of-life directives are not considered private contracts?