Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte.
... When Democrats announced the choice in February 2011, they said selecting the Southern city signaled Obama's intent to fight hard for the conservative-leaning state like he did in 2008. They also highlighted the economic transformation in the state and in Charlotte - from tobacco, textiles and furniture-making to research, energy and banking. Party leaders noted the state's strong political leadership and expressed hope that a Perdue re-election bid would get a boost from the attention that would be lavished on the convention.
Now traditional Democratic Party groups are threatening huge protests in part because they're deeply uncomfortable that the convention is being held in one of the least union-friendly states. And thousands of Democrats across the country are calling for the convention to be relocated because of the gay-marriage vote.
... There's also the fired-up Republican base that turned out Tuesday to approve the constitutional ban on gay marriage. The vote prompted more than 28,000 people to sign an online petition - by the New York-based Gay Marriage USA - to move the convention from Charlotte. Twitter also was flooded with similar sentiment from angry supporters of same-sex marriage. Obama stated his support for gay marriage a day after the vote.
Democrats want to include gay marriage in the platform to be adopted at the convention. That could create controversy at a gathering that's intended to promote party unity by drawing attention to a divisive social issue when the economy remains the most pressing concern.
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North Carolina: Where you can marry your under-aged first cousin? You mean THAT North Carolina?
Oh, pleeeeease put it on the Democratic platform, pleeeease!
I haven't heard much about the Evangelical vote lately, yet they seemed to dominate the news when Bush was on the ticket. Methinks that we might be hearing from the Evangelicals if so-called SS"M" is part of the ticket.
@GZeus
No, no, not that NC (North Carolina.) This aricle is about the NC that just enshrined its dedication to the traditional definition of marriage while simultaneausly signaling its opposition to the sexual depravity that has take over the Democrat party.
"Democratic Party ushering in immoral era of abortions, same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in U.S. say traditional Christians, Jews & Muslims"
http://billparks.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/16/10427383-democratic-party-ushering-in-immoral-era-of-abortions-same-sex-marriage-and-open-homosexuality-in-us-say-traditional-christians-jews-muslims
@LUCIFEReus
Yes THAT North Carolina. For they can get legally married there, if it is legal for them to do so. (The term "under-age" would than not apply.) Or they can get illegally married, if it is not legal there. They can do so because one is a female and one is a male. But the same sex couple cannot get legally or illegally married there, (or anywhere else in the universe), because it is impossible for them to do so.
In NC, the only minority specifically named and prohibited from acquiring a license to marry is "double cousins." Their sexual orientation is irrevelant--their kinship is what disqualifies their eligibility. Nowhere on a NC marriage license application is sexual orientation mentioned; neither is political affiliation, or group identity an eligiblity requirement. Therefore, anyone who claims to be "gay" may be married (as long as that individual isn't trying to marry their double cousin).
The liberal Democrats love to fabricate the conservative war on women when it is they who are the ones who are starting the war.
They are active in the culture war against Christians and people of faith. They have decided that the 1st amendment no longer applies and the churches must be closed.
John Noe - Tell me what churches in the US have been closed. To my knowledge, even the Westboro Baptist Church is alive and well.
JR, in the immortal words of Charles Copper, pro-prop 8 lawyer, "we don't need evidence!"
Why do I get the impression that only one side has a 'right to their oppinions?
What ever happened to free speech?
I am still waiting for the evidence 4 hours later. Has Pastor Charles "put them inside an electrified fence" Morley had his church closed down
NC is lost to Obama, and guess what?
Looks like Wisconsin is doable too!
A lot is riding on this election.
If Obama is not defeated, SS"M" will certainly be imposed on this nation.
Vote accordingly.