[net-gold] LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) : UNEMPLOYMENT : EMPLOYMENT: JOBS : UNITED STATES: STATES: NORTH CAROLINA : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REBUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY: We Wanted a War for Jobs, But We Got a Culture War
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- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:47:00 -0400 (EDT)
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LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) :
UNEMPLOYMENT : EMPLOYMENT: JOBS :
UNITED STATES: STATES: NORTH CAROLINA :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REBUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY:
We Wanted a War for Jobs, But We Got a Culture War
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We Wanted a War for Jobs, But We Got a Culture War
5:38 PM, Sep. 14, 2011
Citizen Times (Asheville, North Carolina)
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110915/OPINION01/309150008/
Editorial-We-wanted-war-jobs-we-got-culture-war?odyssey=
mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFrontpage%7Cs
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3jtxcws
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The unemployment rate in North Carolina is at 10 percent. In the U.S., the
official poverty rate for 2010 topped 15 percent, up from 14.3 percent in
2009. Some 46.2 million Americans, 15.1 percent of the population, are
living at or below the official poverty rate, up from 12.5 percent in
2007. The numbers would be worse, but 3.2 million of us were kept out of
poverty by unemployment insurance and another 20.3 million by Social
Security.
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Against that backdrop, the N. C. General Assembly met in a special session
this week, at a cost of $50,000 a day, to railroad onto the ballot a
measure to amend the state Constitution to ban gay marriage.
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Well. That should fix everything.
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Having taken control of the state legislature for the first time in more
than 100 years largely due to voter dissatisfaction with the economy, the
state GOP has decided instead to dive headfirst into an all-out culture
war.
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Then again, we suppose this could provide something of a jobs boost. After
all, somebody will have to come up with the robocalls that will be
interrupting our evening meals, the swill that will be filling our
mailboxes, the ugly fliers left under our windshield wipers and the
corrosive 30-second spots well see flood our airwaves. Were not sure at
what point democracy turned into big-money advertising campaigns, but were
sure this will be a particularly nasty one. North Carolinians who normally
would not be pitted against one another will be at loggerheads.
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And this vote will solve
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What?
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If it fails, that doesnt mean gay marriage is coming to North Carolina. If
it passes, it takes what is already state law and elevates it to the state
Constitution. It fixes nothing.
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But it promises complications, as it certainly looks as if it could
legitimize discrimination.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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