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      <title>Comments On: (UPDATED) This is democracy? House passes anti-LGBT amendment with no hearings, ever
    
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      <![CDATA[Hearings are pointless. Most everyone already knows how they're going to vote on the amendment.
        
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      <![CDATA[So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Terrell]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[For one thing Bob Geary is NOT a journalist. He is a columnist due to his opinions.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm sorry but this article does not provide much information on what the amendment is actually ABOUT. All I saw throughout the article was "anti-gay."<br>
The only thing that hinted what it was about was "anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment" and "discriminate against gays in matters of marriage and civil unions."
        
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      <![CDATA[Patriot you are right. The other problem is the title of this article.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Audra Heaslip]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[When conservatives had this trick pulled on them in 1765, they were PISSED.:<br>
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<a href="http://www.constitution.org/bcp/vir_res1765.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.constitution.org/bcp/vir_res176&hellip;</a><br>
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And conservatives managed to overturn 80% of the measures within a few days. But eventually radical liberals like Patrick Henry won out, and the American colonies established sovereignty of taxation independent of Britain.
        
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      <![CDATA[The NC House’s recent passage of a referendum to ban same-sex marriage not only stinks of backwards bigotry, hatred, and oppression, the manner in which it was passed stomped all over the rights of North Carolinians to voice their opinions and concerns.<br>
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I don’t need government officials to tell me what “marriage” means and I certainly don’t want their paws all over what constitutes my spiritual life.<br>
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NC House Representatives need to get their noses out of people’s bedrooms and refocus on the urgent issues facing the citizens of this state: helping to create jobs, fixing our broken schools, and figuring out how to create and implement a balanced budget to run our state’s “official” business, among much, much more.<br>
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For Goodness Sake, NC House reps: quit assuming that you know what lifestyle is best for your fellow citizens, mind your own beeswax, and get back to the work you were elected to do. This kind of action is degrading and insulting to our intelligence.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why is it that when the liberals pull the same thing that the Republicans did in this case no one stands up and complains but when the shoe is on the other foot liberals cry foul?<br>
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Both sides the fence are guilty of this type of political move so if you want to ask "Is this democracy?", the answer would have to be yes.<br>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff S]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The truly sad thing, is that we all know this is going to pass.<br>
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The ignorance and bigotry of the Republican leadership is representative of their constituents. I'm personally fed up with fairy-tale religions and their mindless followers forcing their beliefs on others.<br>
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    <author><![CDATA[Leslie H]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[No one, NO ONE, should EVER get to vote on whether other people have basic American rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." No matter how perfect you think you are, you are not so perfect as to own the right to dictate to others how they should live or who they may marry.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mike P.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, just like how in New York the gay marriage bill never had any hearings? The difference, of course, is that in North Carolina, the people will get a direct say -indeed, a direct vote- on the matter.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[James Malenfant]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a bunch of fools. This is how the GOP works.
        
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