Wednesday, May 11, 2005

QueerFear on Parade in Raleigh

They expected thousands, millions!, of gay-hating North Carolinians to show up yesterday outside the legislative building in Raleigh to demonstrate their demand that the state legislature pass an amendment to the state constitution outlawing gay marriage. (North Carolina is one of 39 states that have existing laws recognizing only heterosexual marriages as valid. But...) Organizers of the Raleigh anti-gay rally had star speakers, including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, on hand to stir up the godly. Who mainly didn't show up.

For all that hooplah, they got a thin crowd.

"All it would take is one ruling by the state Supreme Court, and homosexual marriage would be legal here," roared Bill Maier, an assistant to James Dobson, a Colorado Springs child psychologist and radio personality who founded Focus on the Family. Evidently, Mr. Maier hasn't met the members of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

So far at least, the anti-queer constitutional amendment shows no signs of advancing in the state legislature. But rest assured that the N.C. Republican Party, through their church auxillaries, will be passing the Kool-Aide right on into the 2006 general election season. It's best not to let those church people grow idle, lest they begin to notice the Bush economy.

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