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Thu May 17, 2012, 03:00 PM May 2012

chief sponsor: Amendment One “is only backwards if you think that forward is a good thing”

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Why Perdue’s Mississippi comment was on the money 11 Comments
May 14, 2012 at 3:51 pmCategory:Uncategorized
by Rob Schofield

Governor Perdue may have ruffled some feathers in the Magnolia State with her comments last Friday about Amendment One and Mississippi, but her remarks were on the money. As I noted in this interview with ABC 11. the sentiment she expressed makes perfect sense.

Think about it; If one of your main jobs was selling North Carolina to businesspeople from all over the nation and the world, you too would feel embarrassed by having to explain such nonsense. Imagine yourself in a meeting with Tim Cook, the head of Apple Computers and a gay man or, perhaps some prominent film industry exec: How the heck to you put a smiling face on such a hateful and backward-looking change?

Of course, one could simply defer to the wisdom of the amendment’s chief sponsor, House Majority Leader Paul Stam. He said that passage of the amendment “is only backwards if you think that forward is a good thing”

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chief sponsor: Amendment One “is only backwards if you think that forward is a good thing” (Original Post) G_j May 2012 OP
oy xchrom May 2012 #1
zero possibility of intelligent communication G_j May 2012 #3
So we'll recognize Paul Stam because he's the fool driving in reverse? sinkingfeeling May 2012 #2
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