North Carolina passes same-sex marriage ban

[Ozy_Flame]

Well, Obama supports same-sex marriages - Like a bigger shark eating a smaller fish, who cares about North Carolina now!

[Senator Clay Davis]

Well this thread certainly got derailed quickly by Mikey, who I gotta say is so adament against gay marriage I've concluded he must be a ridiculously large closet case. Generally speaking the more the person is against gay rights, the bigger the homo they are.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by photon

I find this chart especially interesting because of what it indicates about which direction the opinion is trending for each group. Between 2010–11, for each one of the religiously unaffiliated (+4%), Catholics (+8%), White mainline protestants (+5%) and Black protestants (+3%), there appears to be a gradually increasing acceptance of same-sex marriage. But for only White Evangelical protestants, there is a sharp decline of -8%.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Well, they're guiding their lives based on a two-thousand year old book. I think the only difference 40 years will make is that a lot of these idiots will be dead and hopefully their children see things in a better light.

My point was that is the time that white will be the minority.

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Well this thread certainly got derailed quickly by Mikey, who I gotta say is so adament against gay marriage I've concluded he must be a ridiculously large closet case. Generally speaking the more the person is against gay rights, the bigger the homo they are.

Study finds that homophobia linked to unacknowledged attraction to the same sex

[afc wimbledon]

If you take the bible as the literal word of God you can happily bugger yourself senseless as long as you don't lie down while you're doing it.

Absoloutly nothing in the bible forbids gay marraige incidently, the bible is only (arguably) concerned with sex acts, there would be absoloutly nothing wrong with two men getting married but living in abstinance.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Absoloutly nothing in the bible forbids gay marraige incidently, the bible is only (arguably) concerned with sex acts, there would be absoloutly nothing wrong with two men getting married but living in abstinance.

Which is a good reason why Christians should support "civil union" rights for all at the very least.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Well, Obama supports same-sex marriages - Like a bigger shark eating a smaller fish, who cares about North Carolina now!

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

Actually, I haven't, I'm going there this year. But you're right about that. Heck, my parents think that way. I think as the older generation dies off, it'll start getting better. Like someone has said in another thread, 50 years from now, we'll probably look back and be incredulous that they even had this referendum in 2012.

You never know with these things.
Roe v Wade was in 1973 and there are still strong feelings on both sides of the issue.

I don't think the same-sex issue ever dies.

[scotty2hotty]

If Game of Thrones has taught us anything it's that if you are gay, even a King, a black smoke demon will inevitably kill you where you stand.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

If Game of Thrones has taught us anything it's that if you are gay, even a King, a black smoke demon will inevitably kill you where you stand.

OMG! Spoiler alert! Dick.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

If Game of Thrones has taught us anything it's that if you are gay, even a King, a black smoke demon will inevitably kill you where you stand.

Like in Lost?

[Devils'Advocate]

Someone at work today made the point that the redneck bible-belt of the U.S. could really bond with the Muslim community and come together over this issue.

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Like in Lost?

George R. R. Martin is a big fan of Lost.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I don't think you quite got my point. I meant pastors like this guy, who rail against homosexuality so hard seem to be the ones who are caught dick-handed.

It makes no difference. I'm pretty sure that evangelical pastors are very stongly in the same camp - anti-gay marriage. In fact, I'd say they are almost unanimously opposed to gay marriage. Their beliefs, while you disagree with them, don't make them more likely that the average man to be caught in a gay-sex situation (I was going to say "position" but situation is probably better) than any other man. In fact, I'd say they are far less likely to be doing that stuff. These are generally married me who do have a sexual outlet. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, just that it's very, very rare and to brand a whole group because of the actions of a few is unfair.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Generally speaking the more the person is against gay rights, the bigger the homo they are.

Ridiculous.

[photon]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

In fact, I'd say they are far less likely to be doing that stuff. These are generally married me who do have a sexual outlet.

Wait, what does having a "sexual outlet" have to do with being straight or gay?

A gay pastor in a heterosexual marriage doesn't have a "sexual outlet" (or more than any other person has by themselves).

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Ridiculous.

Well besides the study HPLovercraft quoted earlier in this thread confirming homophobes are often closet cases, here's a few US Politicians and a methhead who have been caught in gay sex acts/affairs, despite consistently voting against or being against gay rights

Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Bob Allen
Ted Haggard

And those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head in the last couple years.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Land of the free, my @$$.

This is my thought.

Right now, 62% of the voting population of North Carolina does not understand freedom, and in fact made their own home less free.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by edslunch

Interesting how fat and sloppily dressed the modern crowd is compared to the old one (not they are exactly stylish either)

Well it's probably cause they just came from church