in case you were wondering.... this is what a bigot looks like.... so now you know

In case you were wondering, this is what a bigot looks like - so now you know! The sad thing is, this amendment has nothing to do with redefining marriage yet again. North Carolina law already bans same-sex marriage. This law basically strips all legal protections from unmarried couples. You know.. all the Millennials today who don't want to get married since its a failed institution. Unfortunately, this amendment will strip away health insurance from children in unmarried households, and eliminate protections from domestic violence victims if they are not married to their attacker. You see, this is the peak of what Christianity has come to in America - FAR FROM ITS ROOTS! The dwindling Christian obsession with hating on gay people has come to the point where its illegal tax-exempt political meddling is nothing more than a matter of social posturing, bullying the gay community legislatively, trying to hold on to some aspect of pop culture, trying to somehow self-reinforce its purported relevance in a modern society. This law is simply a mean-spirited slap in the faces of gay people, they just want to make sure we know that they still hate us, even if the rest of America doesn't, anymore. Unfortunately, while caught up in this bigoted act of hate, the REAL VICTIMS of this amendment are the CHILDREN OF UNMARRIED HOUSEHOLDS. To the church, that's OK - children are collateral damage! At age 93, Billy Graham is coming out as a bigot, as a hater, as an old person suffering from dementia - because surely he doesn't think this is how to love thy neighbor.

Pew Research finds "broad declines" in marriage equality opposition

Just another major poll identifying what all the other polls are saying: Americans support equality for gay and lesbian folks.  In this poll, opposition to gay marriage in almost every identifiable group of people is now in the minority, with a few exceptions.  These are the polling trends since 2004:

* Total opposition has decreased to 43%

* Black opposition is now in minority at 49%

* 65+ is the only age cohort still in opposition, but only barely at 56%

* My parents cohort is now in the minority at 47% (Mom is 56, Dad is 55)

* Republicans are down 10 points from 78% to 68% - still not a mainstream American party

* Protestants still barely oppose at 56% - where Catholics stood in 2004 before dropping 12 points

* White evangelicals dropped 7 percentage points between 2004-2008, and strong opposition is actually fluctuating - the only group to change directions.  Perhaps people are leaving evangelical denominations are joining friendlier groups and this has changed the sample identifying as evangelical.

* Only 5% of non-religious folks strongly oppose same-sex marriage

Lets not forget that 47% of Americans polled support same-sex marriage now.  Other major national polls have support at 52-58% - but all polls have one thing in common, opposition is quickly declining while support is rapidly increasing.

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The Archbishop of Wales says “All life-long committed relationships deserved the welcome, pastoral care and support of the Church.":

"If the moral aim of the gospel is to encourage love of neighbours, how can that happen when people are made to feel unwanted, unloved, and sinful? How is the gospel good news for homosexuals?”

Predicting some disquiet in the denomination as a result of the speech, he said: “I don’t think he will gain universal approval and I think there are some people who will be aghast [who] will think he’s sold out to political correctness which is a nonsense. Anybody who knows Barry knows he couldn’t give a monkey’s about political correctness.”

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Priest of Seattle's Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church receives a standing ovation for refusal to involve church in signature gathering for initiative to repeal same-sex unions in Washington.

The parish became the sixth in Seattle to opt out of the petition drive for Referendum 74 that has been endorsed and foisted on parishes by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.

Other parishes to shun the signature drive have includes St. James Cathedral, St. Joseph Church, St. Mary’s Church, St. Patrick Church and Christ Our Hope Catholic Church.

In several parishes, pastors have said that gathering signatures against marriage equality would, in the words of the Rev. Michael Ryan of St. James Cathedral, “prove hurtful and seriously divisive in our community.”