Senate Homosexuality: the Thread

This is even worse than the time they stopped mandating prayer in schools. If we don't make them attend religious services how can we continue to claim that this is a christian nation? God's not going to love America for much longer, at this rate.

 

Dear Andrew

Thank you for the invite to your wedding. I confirm that in accordance with the provisions of O.C.G.A. 19-3-11(d) I do hereby give you notice that I have elected to exercise my discretion in favour of attending your wedding. However, I also do hereby give you notice that in in accordance with the provisions of O.C.G.A. 19-3-11(d) all of my rights are hereby reserved in relation to the provision of any subsequent notice (to be served upon you at any time prior to the day of the said wedding as per the date specified in your invitation) in which I may notify you of a change in the exercise of my discretion in favour of not attending your wedding. As you will appreciate, the decision whether to attend your wedding,or not attend your wedding (as the case may be), is a matter of discretion in accordance with the provisions of O.C.G.A. 19-3-11(d), therefore you hereby agree to indemnify me and hold me harmless from and against all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, lawyer's fees, catering fees, beverage fees and other associated costs arising out of, or relating to, any decision by me whether to attend your wedding, including, but not limited to, any decision not to attend.

Sincerely

Paul

 

At first glance, this appears to be a back door way of covering people like photographers and bakers. If a photographer cannot be forced to attend a gay wedding then they cannot commit to the job. For bakers, from my experience, many of them attend the wedding reception to cut and serve the cake (since they often involve removing dowels and elaborate cake decorations) so same thing for them.

EDIT: But I haven't fully looked at the bill to know this for sure.

 

Horrifying. Surely the bill will be defeated or, if it passes, will be challenged on constitutional grounds. A man is suddenly concerned for the future, and is glad he doesn't live in North Carolina or Georgia.

 

Ugh, I hate this North Carolina bill with a passion, and while I'm confident it won't stand forever, it still sucks for trans people in the meantime. It sucks for folks like me! I get mistaken for a man allllll the time, though I'm not one, and I can just see the interrogations (at best, god forbid the worst happens) I'd be facing if I tried to use the ~legally and personally correct~ bathroom in North Carolina if the wrong person happened to be in there, too. I mean, I get regularly harassed in good ol' New England where, AFAIK, there are no laws like this. At least I'd have the right of things if I took my harasser/assaulter to court, though a successful court battle is so much less desirable than not getting harassed/assaulted in the first place. I imagine the same goes for the trans folks who will now be forced into the bathrooms that don't match their gender. Sure, any trans woman who gets assaulted in the men's restroom was legally in the right place. But that's little consolation after the damage has been done.

 

Tracy... you need to leave NC. You're far too awesome to live in that backwards hellhole.

 

Disappointing to hear this news from NC. I'm sure it won't stand, and hopefully the legal challenge doesn't take years to make things right.

 

That varies by the individual. We don't even know if it's that factor of biological causation or not.

 

North Carolina is being sued over HB-2

 

I have to say that I genuinely did not know that North Carolina was this backwards. I mean, I feel like, up until recently, places like Oklahoma, where I live, and Alabama and stuff get the bad rep for stuff like this. But I rarely heard people talking that way about NC until I met you. And now it seems to have finally broken on a national level. But, yeah, it sounds pretty terrible.

 

Jesus. I mean, that alone should be unacceptable enough to get everyone of those people thrown out of office. If a state's populace is really okay enough with that kind of drop in education to keep electing those responsible, then I just don't even know what to say.

 

Gerrymandering, man.

 

Yeah. Gerrymandering is just political gamesmanship at its most cartoonish and blatant. I don't know how anyone thinks that's okay. It would be nice if more of the public at large knew about and understood that. It's as big an issue as money in politics, I think, in terms of keeping the government screwed up but I even forget about it a lot of the time myself.

 

Exactly... it was a relief to see him announce that he would veto that stupid thing earlier today.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/28/us/georgia-north-carolina-lgbt-bills/index.html

 

Not surprised considering the amount of pressure that was planed on Georgia's Governor by several businesses including TV and film productions (including Disney/Marvel and AMC which films The Walking Dead there) to veto that bill.

Springsteen just announced he was cancelling a concert in NC over NC House Bill 2.