North Carolina bans same sex marriage

[jimnyc]

North Carolina passes same-sex marriage ban, CNN projects

(CNN) -- North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, CNN projects, putting a ban that already existed in state law into the state's charter.

With more than 1.5 million votes counted from Tuesday's referendum, supporters of the ban led opponents by a margin of 61% to 39%, according to figures from the State Board of Elections. Its backers prepared to celebrate by serving wedding cake to their supporters in a Raleigh ballroom.

Tami Fitzgerald, the head of Vote for Marriage NC, said she had been confident that "the people of North Carolina would rise up and vote to keep the opposition from redefining traditional marriage.

"We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage," she said. "And the point -- the whole point -- is simply that you don't rewrite the nature of God's design for marriage based on the demands of a group of adults."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/08/politi...ion=cnn_latest

[cadet]

Well, I know where I'm moving too.

Just as soon as all the gay protesters come and go.

[Noir]

I wonder if gods idea of marriage includes the idea of (say) a man and a woman, both divorced several times, getting married.

[jimnyc]

I wonder if gods idea of marriage includes the idea of (say) a man and a woman, both divorced several times, getting married.

The Catholic Church is against divorce and you cannot remarry in the church once you've done so.

[Noir]

The Catholic Church is against divorce and you cannot remarry in the church once you've done so.

Only if you got married in a Catholic church, if you got married in say a Protestant church (surprise!) you weren't married at all, according to the Catholics.

[tailfins]

Only if you got married in a Catholic church, if you got married in say a Protestant church (surprise!) you weren't married at all, according to the Catholics.

So some of Newtie Gingrich's marriages didn't necessitate a divorce since he wasn't married in the first place? Just asking.

[jimnyc]

Only if you got married in a Catholic church, if you got married in say a Protestant church (surprise!) you weren't married at all, according to the Catholics.

I don't think it's that simple, but I'm not as knowledgeable as others on the subject. From what I recall, the Church doesn't believe in divorce and won't remarry people once they have done so, and you're not to get communion once divorced either. I don't think they just ignore marriages from other Churches and therefore ignore any divorces.

[ConHog]

The Catholic Church is against divorce and you cannot remarry in the church once you've done so.

Unless you pay enough money for the church to issue an annulment pretending the first marriage never happened LOL

[Gator Monroe]

13% of all Legal Divorces since 1964 have been in Catholic Households

[logroller]

I wonder if gods idea of marriage includes the idea of (say) a man and a woman, both divorced several times, getting married.

Then the Pope has got some explaining to do.

[Gator Monroe]

Then the Pope has got some explaining to do.

Perhaps I could sub for him here ???

[Wind Song]

You can marry your cousin in Tennessee but you can't marry your same sex lover and companion.

[MtnBiker]

The headline should read "In North Carolina Obama's base turns out to ban gay marriage"

As National Journal's Beth Reinhard wrote on Monday, the issue of gay marriage is politically complicated for Obama because while young voters largely support it, African-Americans do not.

Indeed, many rural, heavily African-American counties that strongly supported Obama in the 2008 contest overwhelmingly backed the gay marriage ban. In Hertford County, which is over 60 percent African-American, Obama won 70 percent of the vote in 2008 but it voted heavily for Amendment 1 (3,817 yes votes; 1,627 no votes).

In Bertie County, the most African-American county in the state (over 62 percent), Obama garnered over 65 percent of the vote. But a whopping 73 percent of the county's voters supported the constitutional amendment.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal...carolina-2.php

[darin]

You can marry your cousin in Tennessee but you can't marry your same sex lover and companion.

Nor can you marry your pet, house, car, or anything else one simply 'loves'.

Good for the people of the state; deciding how they want to be governed.

[Wind Song]

Nor can you marry your pet, house, car, or anything else one simply 'loves'.

Good for the people of the state; deciding how they want to be governed.

Good for the state preferring incest over marriage equality.