From the Vote FOR Marriage NC campaign:
Today, Vote FOR Marriage NC demanded a public apology from UNC Greensboro Provost David Perrin, along with taxpayer reimbursement for his use of state resources to campaign against the marriage Protection Amendment on the May ballot. Failing this, the campaign has called on UNC trustees to remove Perrin from his position.
“This is an outrageous use of taxpayer resources in violation of university policy and state law,” said Tami Fitzgerald, Chair of the Vote FOR Marriage NC campaign, which supports the marriage amendment on next week’s ballot. “We’re pleased that the university has launched an investigation. Meanwhile, Provost Perrin should immediately issue a public apology and write a check to taxpayers for his misuse of state resources to campaign against the marriage protection amendment. If he fails to do so, then we call on university trustees to remove him from his position.”
On April 13, Perrin sent an email from his official state account to other state employees and the university’s Dean’s Council, titled “Vote Against Amendment One.” In the email, Perrin encouraged readers to watch an anti-marriage amendment video he called “wonderful” and to forward it to others. Using state resources to campaign against the amendment is both illegal and against university policy. A university spokesman says they are investigating.
“These academics are so insulated and live in such an ivory tower that they think they can do and say anything they want at our expense,” Fitzgerald said. “This is an example of why the marriage amendment is so necessary. It puts voters in charge of our definition of marriage and protects marriage from being redefined by the elite in academia, and activist judges on our courts.”
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Question for clarification:
University resources = an email address?
Homosexual gym teacher. Can't find a lick of info online about a wife or kids. The only personal snippet I could find was:
In his free time, Perrin enjoys traveling, exercising, and vacationing at his lake cottage in Vermont.
They forgot to add "antiquing."
@educated
If the such actions were conducted in the university then yes it was on the taxpayers dime...even if it was an email.
Educational facilities should not be utilized for such purposes. They are there to prepare the next generation of leaders, not spread their dogma.
Good to see NOM beginning to battle on this front. The elitist social engineers behind the marriage corruption movement often take advantage of public resources to advance their cause.
It is long since time to call them to account.
Meanwhile, can you smell victory in the air in NC?
I can!
Sure smells weet.......
http://washingtonindependent.com/116452/nom%e2%80%99s-2010-financial-records-raise-questions
http://www.gospelaccordingtohate.com/2010/04/iowa-christian-group-receiving-your-tax.html
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/the-templetons-give-huge-donations-to-anti-gay-organization/
So wait a minute.
Aren't some churches heavily involved in this amendment push, who enjoy the fruits of public services in the community (infrastructure, sewage, water, other services, fire and police protection, etc....) without paying a DIME in taxes.
They are being subsidized by the tax payers AND heavily involved in trying to pass this amendment.
This guy is probably in the wrong, technically. But as a former state employee, I can tell you that this kind of stuff went on all the time - people appealing to their coworkers to support whatever pet cause or charity. Or an invitation to participate in some fundraiser. All probable violations, all fairly harmless, all part of the de-facto state policies on inter-office email.
Is this what they call a tempest in a teapot?
Does anyone else find this bristling a bit inconsistent, coming from folks who are usually support the conscience rights of an employee? This seems a bit disingenuous, coming from folks who express outrage over the firing of employees who refuse to do their jobs because of conflicts of concience. Doesn't jibe too well with outrage over David Perrin following his concience.
Graham: You get the gold star there, you clever fellow. We are defeating marriage corruption because it contradicts our religious beliefs. This is our constitutional right. You have no chance- I sincerely mean no chance at all- to redefine marriage, because the SCOTUS will notice that every time the people have had a chance to vote on the matter, they have defended the definition of marriage which happens to comport with our beliefs.
It is called "freedom of religion", and there is just not one....single...thing...you can do about it.
Actually Rick the Supreme Court is very likely to strike down all laws and Amendments that forbid two people of the same gender from availing themselves of marriage law. I'd say by as much as by a 6 to 3 vote. SCOTUS struck down laws against interracial marriage when 72% of Americans were opposed to it.
North Carolina is showing even more blatantly than most others that this IS the imposition of religious beliefs into what is supposed to be secular law. It matters not what any majority has voted for. The Constitution and long standing legal precedent is very clear on this point.
If the majority doesn't like that, then they need to change the U.S. Constitution. It is the only remedy to strip gay couples of their right to equal treatment of the laws, and it takes a super majority to do it. Good luck getting that. National polls are now indicating that more people support marriage equality for gay couples than oppose it.
Graham:
I see that you have a crystal ball, into which you look, and perceive some future which, of course, is actually nothing but your own projection.
Let us begin to distinguish between your fantasy, and reality, with the vote upcoming in North Carolina, where the people- you know, the sovereign m asters of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our government?- will reject the best efforts of your marriage corruption agenda by a tidal wave of perhaps as much as twenty per cent margin of victory.
Your crystal ball will require much refurbishing if it is to serve its function of clouding your vision in the face of such a stake and clear message.
See you in MN.....
Well put Rick.
That's terrible! He should pay back every dime spent--what's that? It comes to zero dimes?
NOM? Bearing false witness? I'm shocked! Shocked! Shocked that they actually quoted the part about what he actually did instead of vaguely referring to it in a way that might actually make somebody believe they were telling the truth.
Well, not that shocked. It seems I've seen them lying about what other people have said, and then directly quoting them as if to prove that they're lying, before.
"[T]he SCOTUS will notice that every time the people have had a chance to vote on the matter, they have defended the definition of marriage which happens to comport with our beliefs."
A very misleading way to describe that, but it's irrelevant. See, if they yielded to that instead of justice and the Constitution, then there wouldn't actually be any point in them existing.
"It is called 'freedom of religion', and there is just not one....single...thing...you can do about it."
Imposing your religious beliefs on others through force of law is literally exactly what the Freedom of Religion FORBIDS.
See, if you do that, then we don't have religious freedom; we have one state-endorsed religion, which is literally the opposite (gosh, I use those words a lot when commenting on NOM's blog...) of religious freedom.
And the thing is? Even if you weren't lying, or perhaps just grossly (and intentionally) misinformed, it wouldn't matter.
We're the good guys. We're in this fight because it's the right thing to do. And we don't back down, no matter how impossible it seems, because INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GETTING HURT, and that is NOT OKAY!