Southern City Supports Same-Sex Marriage
Anyone who has been to a city council meeting knows that it can be an exercise in endurance. Last night's Durham, North Carolina, City Council meeting was a long two and a half hour ordeal. For the first 45 minutes, various awards were handed out. The next hour was spent on recycling, which has been discussed in depth at meetings, online and in the newspaper for months. This was tabled, thank goodness. I'm sure people were there for the recycling debate and to watch civil servants receive well-deserved kudos; however, there was one clear reason why the room was packed on a Monday night at 9:15 pm.: There was a resolution before the council to support same-sex marriage.
The room was packed with supporters of the measure who had signed up to speak. There was one person in the room who wished to speak against the resolution. Mayor Bill Bell called for a vote, did not let anyone speak, and the resolution was unanimously passed! Everyone (except the one person against the resolution) cheered, yelled and left the council to finish its work.
So what does this say about Durham, the resolution or anything about same-sex marriage? This resolution is not binding in any way, nor does it change the law in either the city or state. But by approving this resolution, this small Southern city with a history of unequal treatment of races has gone on the record to say that it believes equal rights should be for everyone, and that the ability to marry should be based on the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees that all of us are equal under the law.
Good for you, Durham.
Aug 18th, 2009 at 8:45pm
Unequal treatment of races? Durham if anything is the exception to the history of race in most southern towns (and some northern towns too). Look back at the history of Durham and you will find the home of "Black Wall Street" where black businesses thrived during Jim Crow, the first interracial basketball game, and a southern town that voluntarily desegregated before the civil rights laws were passed.
I'm guessing this comment comes from the Duke Lacross case. There is so much more to Durham than that case and doesn't represent the true nature of Durham, which is a town where everyone is welcome and accepted.
Aug 18th, 2009 at 10:55pm
The FAGS and DYKES never give up. Thank God that someday all these unrepentant sodomites will be cast into hell. I know you sick perverts laugh and scoff at that but one day you will find out just how real and terrifying hell is. Thank me very much.
Aug 19th, 2009 at 2:37pm
This is good but the mayor definitly should have let people speak.
Aug 20th, 2009 at 8:52pm
Faggets should never have rights,they're useless just like the aclu
Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:00am
Obama Discovers God is On His Side
Date: 8/21/2009 8:31:01 AM
Remember when candidate Obama said important religious matters were “above my pay grade?”
Well, apparently those days are all over. The president has discovered miraculously that God is on his side (and coincidentally, not on ours) in his push for the total government takeover of health care:
According to the Weekly Standard, In a morning conference call with about 1000 rabbis from across the nation, Obama asked for aid: "I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform," the President told the group, according to Rabbi Jack Moline, who tweeted his way through the phoner.
"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama went on to say, according to Moline's real-time stream.
Wow. Obama sees himself as God’s partner in “matters of ... death.” Wow. Can anybody say “death panels?” And the left thought they were the ones who had to worry about a president who wanted to impose a theocracy on America!
That deafening silence you hear is the utter absence of any screeching from the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Apparently they don’t care if a leftwing president crosses their mythical line of separation as long as the Christian God he claims to serve has been fashioned in the president’s image rather than the other way round. Wow.
Aug 21st, 2009 at 2:37pm
Whats wrong Liberal Hater Won'y your Mommy let you stay up late enogh to go to your Klan meeting.Btw you can start swearing again I was only joking when I threatened to tell your Mother about your swearing here.
I don't believe in censorship but I didn't realise that you would be dumb enough to believe I have either the means or the desire to track the poor woman down.After all the woman has enough problems with a raving geek like you for a son.
So please have fun showing off all the big swear wods you know and thank you for all the laughs I had when I accidentaly scared you into cleaning up your language.
Dec 9th, 2009 at 5:55pm
For Liberal Hater and aclu and fagget hatter I want to say that you both are idiots who know nothing about anything. Durham is one of the best places to live cause i live there and go to North Carolina Central University. I think that narrow minded people are so stupid and rude. So rock on Mayor Bill Bell!!!
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