North Carolina’s “Abomination”
Protect marriage? It is high time that we protect one of our most cherished founding liberties, our First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
LGBT Discrimination and Amendment One: A Compilation
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free and civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes”. Thomas Jefferson. A compilation of articles from this site about NC Amendment One and discrimination is provided.
In Defense of Same-Sex Marriage
“A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.” US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun
Calling Them Out By Name
With the Tea Party and the Christian Right rapidly losing ground in public opinion, Republican Politicians have to walk a fine line in motivating an important element of their base without alienating the middle. But when prominent politicians, for political purposes, lend their support to a summit backed by entities whose lies and language foster hate crimes against a segment of our citizenry, it is time to call them out. By their stature and mere presence, these politicians have given sanction to bigotry and assistance to persecution thus betraying their duty in governance. And for what purpose? Look no further than the cause of the anger fueling the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is time we stop the manipulation of bigotry and fear for financial and political gain.
Under Attack By The Religious Right: Our Establishment Clause
The NC Constitutional Amendment that would prohibit same-sex unions is more than a civil rights matter. It represents nothing short of an assault by the Religious Right on one of our most cherished founding liberties, that of religious freedom through the separation of church and state by our First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. This article further explores the claim that America was founded as a Christian Nation, and examines whether the Bible should be considered an infallible source upon which to base law.
Sponsor of Constitutional Amendment: “We Need to Get [Homosexuals] to Change their Lifestyle to the One We Accept”
Regarding the proposed NC Consitutional Amendment that would ban same sex marriage, the following statement by the NC Senate Deputy President Pro Tempore, a physician, was published in the press: “We need to reach out to them [homosexuals] and get them to change their lifestyle back to the one we accept”. It deserved a response.
Banning Same Sex Marriage: An Agenda of Hatred, Ignorance and Political Manipulation
A proposed amendment to the NC state constitution banning same-sex marriage is coming before a special legislative session. When the religious objections are removed, as is required in civil matters, what is left is simply hatred borne of ignorance and political manipulation
Lefties, and Commies, and Nazis! Oh my!
A Brain to think about what we say; a Heart for our fellow humanity; and the Courage to accept we’re not all that different.
Fostering a Hostile Environment
It has been said that our government should be run as a business. Let’s begin with the leadership addressing the issue of ‘hostile environment’.
Let The Tea Party Denounce the Rhetoric of Limbaugh and Beck
Face The Nation (CBS) featured dialog between Benjamin Jealous (NAACP President) and David Webb (Co-founder Tea Party 365). Mr. Webb claimed that the NAACP was engaged in ‘selective racism’; the NAACP had passed a resolution at their annual convention for the Tea Party to “repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” Mr. Webb’s position was that the NAACP was condemning figures who are not part of the Tea Party movement. I issued the following comment to the show.
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North Carolina’s “Abomination”
Protect marriage? It is high time that we protect one of our most cherished founding liberties, our First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
LGBT Discrimination and Amendment One: A Compilation
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free and civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes”. Thomas Jefferson. A compilation of articles from this site about NC Amendment One and discrimination is provided.
In Defense of Same-Sex Marriage
“A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.” US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun
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Job Creation and Our Diminished Economic Engine: The Middle Class
Over the past 30 years the vast majority of income gains have gone to the wealthiest in our country. In an economy that is 70% personal consumption, we will continue to experience slow recovery and anemic job growth until we more broadly share prosperity and rebuild the purchasing power of our economic engine, the middle class