North Carolina House Bill Would Redefine Marriage As Only Heterosexual

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published APRIL 11, 2017, 5:56 PM EDT

Three Republicans in North Carolina’s House of Representatives have introduced a bill to reverse the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling in the state.

H.B. 780, reported by WNCN Tuesday, states that the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring that same-sex couples are guaranteed the right to marry overstepped the court’s constitutional bounds.

The ruling also, according to the bill’s three primary Republican sponsors, “exceeds the authority of the Court relative to the decree of Almighty God that "a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24, ESV) and abrogates the clear meaning and understanding of marriage in all societies throughout prior history.” Legal experts are dubious that the Supreme Court ruling would be overturned.

A similar bill in Tennessee to recognize only those marriages between one man and one woman, the Natural Marriage Defense Act, was delayed recently pending the results of two lawsuits related to same-sex marriage in the state, the Tennessean reported.

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[sakabatou]

1. Ugh...

[world wide wally]

2. WTF is it with NC?

Are they like apparent hetero sex addicts? A state for future priests? Monks?
What is it down there?

[Dave Starsky]

30. Lots of self-loathing closet cases.

I honestly don't know anyone else who cares about what gay people do to the level that they do.

[SoCalNative]

31. I'm convinced it's something in the water there

that causes its politicians not to learn from past mistakes and remain low-IQ.

[IdiotsforPalin]

3. NC ready to lose alll those conventions and sporting events agian? WTF is wrong with you?

[RKP5637]

26. Just write NC off the list for everything. The state is totally F'ed up. n/t

[gopiscrap]

4. Probably unconstitutional

I wish the God damn idiot repukes would quite wasting the courts time and our tax dollars having to fight their dumb ass ignorant shit.

[Mr.Bill]

5. They are serving

the pack of state employed lawyers who will make a small fortune defending this garbage in court only to lose.

[NurseJackie]

6. They ain't rite.

[barbtries]

7. the republicans in this state.

aargh.

i don't belong here.

i've come to believe that these people who go after LGBTQ and transgender people are perverts. who cares so much about a stranger's sex life?!

as for the religious angle, oh for chrissake! the republicans running the state (into the ground) are obviously christian in name only. they are mean, cruel, craven, motherfuckers.

it's so excruciating. it's lovely here (except during the sweat, otherwise known as summer). My family and i have done so well here, we were literally lifted out of poverty. i want to go home, but it's California - every time i check out the cost of real estate or any place to live, i can't move. i can't move. excruciating.

[we can do it]

9. Come to Delaware.

[barbtries]

15. never thought of that!

i'd need a really good job to leave here. especially to anywhere but home.

[we can do it]

25. We just moved here from Ohio last summer.

Wife kept job, us working remote.

[sarcasmo]

16. I was @ Ft. Bragg back in the 80's, Fayetville still had Klan rally's.

Don't miss that North Carolina one bit.

[barbtries]

19. i'm pretty sure they're holding them now

i think NC is associated with the birth of the KKK. not entirely sure. but there are plenty of overt racists. and all through the country institutionalized racism is fucking with generations of people. i am in a blue area (durham) but even here there are the haves and the have nots and it is lamentable. in 2017 no less.

[Baconator]

23. I was at Bragg recently...

... and while Fayetteville is indeed a pit, we liked the areas on the outskirts.

The Jesus freaks were a bit much though.

[sarcasmo]

24. The area is beautiful. The Jesus freaks and the Klan ruin the option of settling down.

[RKP5637]

28. Many republicans like this are perverts, and they don't get called out for it. The get their kicks

from stuff like this. It's their sex life. Like really, those so damn interested in others sexual lives really have some issues going on.

[barbtries]

32. that is the conclusion i've reached.

mind you these are the same fucking assholes who voted for a man who brags about abusing women sexually and being a pervert, walking in on beauty pageant dressing rooms. yuck. get a life

[paleotn]

8. The operative word here is "introduced"

Any crank legislator from pig's knuckle can introduce legislation. Actually getting it passed, particularly if it's as patently unconstitutional as this one, is an entirely different subject.

[J_William_Ryan]

10. Further confirmation of the fact

that far too many on the right are reprehensible bigots.

[jmowreader]

11. If these legislators want to hew strictly to the Bible, their constituents would starve to death

Leviticus 11.7: "And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud, he is unclean to you." Hence, no more pulled pork barbecue.

Leviticus 11.10-12: "And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the river, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you. They shall be even an abomination to you; but ye shall have their carcasses in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you." So, no catfish, shrimp, crayfish or oysters. (For the record, there are more verses about the evils of oysters (three in Lev. 11) than there are about homosexuality (one in Lev. 18, one in Lev. 20)...but this hasn't stopped any of the churches down there from profiting on oyster roasts.

Lev. 11-20 says "all fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you." Since domesticated chickens and turkeys can't fly...

...would that make eating them an abomination? Or just the skinless, boneless ones? For REAL abomination, try a bacon-wrapped turkey with oyster dressing and shrimp cocktails for appetizers. Yeah, these assholes will get to the Pearly Gates..."nope, you can't come in, I saw what you served for Christmas dinner last year. You think we didn't notice that big-ass ham in the middle of the table?"

Here's the biggest problem these knuckleheads have: You're going to see a lot of these kinds of cases in the next couple of years, and they all have one goal: Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The five justices who voted to uphold Obergefell are still on the Supreme Court.

[crazycatlady]

14. Anyone in NC proposing taking away BBQ

Will go down in flames

(not in NC, but miss southern BBQ)

[Ligyron]

12. WTF?

Exceeds the authority of the Court relative to the decree of Almighty God that "a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2"

Where in theConstitutionn is this supernatural entity, which can't be demonstrated to exist and will never show up in court anyway, where is this thing given any authority in law?

[dalton99a]

13. Proceed, morons

[Oneironaut]

17. Once again proving how true the "First they came for the (group)" poem is.

- Transmen and Transwomen

- Gays, Lesbians, etc.

- Next? If you give a bigot a cookie, they're going to want a glass of milk...

[William769]

18. ...

[FDRsGhost]

20. Time for professional sports time to start talking about leaving

That will get their attention damn fast!

[RKP5637]

29. North Carolina, the forgotten state. n/t

[Baconator]

21. Pushing for campaign contributions...

... with the knowledge that this will fail on its face.

This didn't even go through in freakin' Alabama. The biblical bullshit is just extra icing on the cake.

[HAB911]

22. NC is full of some simplemined fucks

[Golden Raisin]

27. They would gleefully bring

back slavery and secession if they could get away with it.

[OldHippieChick]

33. Even a right-wing radio host was bemoaning this latest

bonehead move. He said "we just got them to stop pointing the finger at us for being the most bigoted and you go out and find another reason for them to point their fingers at us again".