amendment one

Last week, we had some mean namecalling for Ohio Senator Rob Portman. We were all, Rob Portman: Fuck That Guy. It was particularly trenchant, and well-said! But now the newest person to all of a sudden have seen the (big gay disco ball) light is a Democrat, so it is a totally different thing, and [...]

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue is extremely unhappy with the 61 percent of her tragically dumb constituents who voted to constitutionally ban gay marriage and gay civil unions in the state. How unhappy? Full nuclear insult unhappy: “People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi.” OH [...]

Here is the last amendment that North Carolina added to its state constitution regarding its rules for marriage, in 1875. About time for an update, you might say? A majority of North Carolinians also agree, time for a constitutional update! Now, who will explain to all those North Carolina voters exactly what an “update” is?

Your Wonkette editor was happily trawling polling data on her Friday afternoon — how else do you get a wild weekend started — when she belatedly noticed a fun head-scratcher in a recent Public Policy Polling item about the upcoming vote on North Carolina’s Amendment One, which would add a ban on same-sex marriage and [...]

Er, what? Some surely very nice lady what is married to a North Carolina state Senator has explained the need to vote down any recognition of gay-homosexual relationships (or straight domestic partnerships!) because of how the mud people are taking over the country? Sure, why not! (She did not say “mud people,” she just meant [...]

Good morning, North Carolina! Have you got on your voting shoes? Gonna go cast a ballot for the sanctity of marriage and making sure children are protected from the hellish horror of having two dads (see above!) instead of having one sad silent mom and one drunken, handsy dad as Leviticus God intended (plus some [...]


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