GOP will attempt Thursday to stop N.C. same-sex marriage

[brooklynite]

Source: Charlotte Observer

Republican leaders in the North Carolina legislature apparently will make good Thursday on their pledge to fight the expected go-ahead for same-sex marriages in the state.

Charlotte attorney Robert Potter is expected to ask the federal judge hearing two of North Carolina’s marriage lawsuits to allow the General Assembly to join the cases.

U.S. District Judge William Osteen notified the other parties in the case that Potter called Wednesday to say that the legislature “intends to file a motion to intervene” on Thursday. “The court will address that issue tomorrow (Thursday),” the judge’s office said in an email.

The state is within a stroke of a pen by Osteen or U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, who took over a Charlotte-based case Thursday morning, of striking down its bans against same-sex marriage. Legal challenges have picked up speed this week after the Supreme Court announced it would not challenge lower-court decisions in five states that found similar marriage laws unconstitutional.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/10/09/5230369/gop-will-attempt-thursday-to-stop.html#.VDam4_ldXng

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Good luck with that

[JoePhilly]

1. Should help Hagen in the mid-term.

[mnhtnbb]

2. Sure, get out there and parade your bigotry, hate, and self-righteousness for all the world to see

I am SO SICK of the fu*kin' Republicans in this state.

[blm]

8. We HAVE to work on turnout harder than ever before.

We are literally facing down pure evil, at this point.

[logosoco]

3. Well, they do seem to think their job is to make people miserable rather than doing any good. nt

[yardwork]

4. Wasting more of the taxpayers' money.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Republicans don't care about "wasting taxpayer money." Never have, never will.

[yardwork]

7. We know that but it's good to point it out as often as possible.

A lot of North Carolina voters are confused on this subject and I never miss an opportunity to help enlighten them.

[calimary]

5. Why don't they go back to the 6th Century where they belong???

[marions ghost]

9. The comments on the Charlotte Observer story are encouraging:

These voters are NOT fooled...




The Raleigh GOP is no longer the representative body of the citizens. They are the sponsored lobby force for ALEC, the religious PACS and any other highest bidders. I'm so sick and tired of the one side of the GOP mouth bemoaning governmental intrusion... until it's a convenient tool to stifle something their sponsors don't like. Then by God, ALEC writes up a bill to straight out make it illegal. These men and women aren't leaders... they're opportunists.
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· 2 · 6 minutes ago

Rick B · Top Commenter · Mineral Springs, North Carolina
So what is our state's brilliant "leadership" going to cut in order to pay this lawyer to push their special-interest garbage? More teacher assistant cuts? Maybe more textbook cuts? Perhaps cuts in DENR personnel who shopuld be protecting our air and water? Maybe cuts to public safety?

Please, Thommie and Philly, please DO tell us what else you're going to take away from us hardworking taxpayers in order to pursue your personal agenda? Why don't you at LEAST have the integrity to pay this idiot lawyer out of your own fat pockets. Oh, wait...using the word "integrity" in conjunction with Tillis or Berger is an oxymoron.

This is "conservative" spending policy, right?
Worst. General. Assembly. EVER.

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· 4 · 18 minutes ago

· Top Commenter · North Carolina State University
Tillis is pandering to his base, and banking on their ignorance. Unfortunately taxpayer dollars will be burned foolishly rather than supporting education. That money should be used for textbooks and other needed materials.
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· 7 · 21 minutes ago

Jimmy
Your tax dollars being flushed down the toilet.

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· 7 · 24 minutes ago

NOManiacs
John Eastman represents a hate group called National Organization for Marriage. Its supporters have been encouraged to post hate speech and death threats on social media: http://nomaniacs.wordpress.com
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· 7 · 30 minutes ago

Laura Top Commenter · Works at Matthews Periodontics
Be wary of any group with the words "marriage "and/ or "family"
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· 22 minutes ago

Jim Charlotte · Top Commenter · Internship at Croquet Records
Only to Tillis and the GOP does it make sense spend $1.5 million in taxpayer dollars to try to keep $64 million from being spent in NC over the next 3 years. North Carolina can't afford to have Tillis in the Senate.
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· 12 · 42 minutes ago

Laura · Top Commenter · Works at Matthews Periodontics
What happened to the party of less government spending?
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· 3 · 21 minutes ago

George · Top Commenter · UNC Wilmington
Tillis' campaign manager must have told him he might get more votes if he fights this losing battle. The writing is on the wall......
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· 11 · 43 minutes ago

Charles · Bangor University
I used to be pretty moderate, I've even voted GOP in the past. My family are all Republicans. Can't they see how awful and hateful these folks are? Recognize my marriage, NC!
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· 13 · 58 minutes ago
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Top Commenter · Relaxed at Retired
This is what I like about the North Carolina GOP that states over and over again that they want to save us money and yet they throw good money after bad over and over and over again in their attempts to suppress civil rights. These issues have all been ruled on and upheld by Appeals Courts and yet they still want to waste more money in another failed attempt to undo what has been done.
While they are at it, lets try another attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act. Just imagine what good could be done if the Tea Party (Formerly the Republican Party) would work in the interest of ALL citizens instead of their select few.
As my father-in-law often said, "...some people can only learn by peeing on the electric fence." Unfortunately, I do not think that even doing that would waken the NC GOP to what a good portion of North Carolina citizens are concerned with.
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· 12 · about an hour ago

Dave · Top Commenter · University of North Carolina at Asheville
Good for your father-in-law. It's remarkable how concerned the NC GOP is with how we use certain body parts while they aim theirs at an electric fence... :-D
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Rich · Top Commenter · Virginia Tech
Okay, raise your hand if you want to see your tax dollars thrown away into this already-adjudicated constitutional black hole just so Tillis, Berger, and the rest of the NC GOP anti-gay brigade can make a political point prior to the November election. (Kay should ask Tillis just what he has against freedom.) What, no takers?

Because you know those boys aren't going to actually spend their OWN money on their little Alamo-like last stand, do you? That would be so un-Republican of them.
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[SoapBox]

10. Pukes always need someone to HATE.

Foundation of their party...hatred.

[yellowcanine]

11. Oh goody. Pick up gun. Aim at foot. Shoot Foot. Repeat.

[Skittles]

12. repukes, always on the wrong side of history

f*** them all

[Orsino]

13. It saddens me to think of hundreds of people disappointed...

...when their pandering to the worst of their base fails to stop the juggernaut.