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Historic day: Gay marriage is legal in North Carolina
FOX 8 WGHP ^ | October 10, 2014 | Web Staff

Posted on 10/10/2014 4:43:50 PM PDT by BurningOak

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Federal U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. has overturned North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The case was filed by members of the clergy seeking to marry gay couples.

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Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis issued the following statement following the ban being overturned:

While we recognize the tremendous passion on all sides of this issue, we promised to defend the will of North Carolina voters because they – not judges and not politicians – define marriage as between one man and one woman and placed that in our state constitution. It is disappointing this decision was made without North Carolina’s law receiving its day in court, and we will continue to work to ensure the voice of the voters is heard.

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(Excerpt) Read more at myfox8.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; judicialsupremacy; marriage; northcarolina
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To: Gator113

I got one call....it was my wife....And she demanded a raise. Sheesh! You don’t get ANY breaks, do you?


21 posted on 10/10/2014 6:03:58 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Can the day be near when the whole country will be the USSA(Union of Soviet Sodomites of America)?


22 posted on 10/10/2014 6:05:04 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: BurningOak
A Christian ministry for these folks.

Courage and Encourage [spiritual support for persons w/ same-sex attraction who are striving...

23 posted on 10/10/2014 6:13:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: BurningOak

Today, my brother... Tomorrow, my dog........


24 posted on 10/10/2014 6:18:06 PM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: John 3_19-21

How long until Christian churches are forced to “marry” homosexuals? Probably not too long.

How did 2-3% of the population get so much power?


25 posted on 10/10/2014 6:19:32 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Mamzelle

Asheville activists criticize rainbow flag at City Hall

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/10/10/asheville-activists-criticize-rainbow-flag-city-hall/17039543/


26 posted on 10/10/2014 6:20:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

“How long until Christian churches are forced to “marry” homosexuals? Probably not too long.”

I already figured out that if the building was empty, about a dozen cars parked a couple of inches from the doors would totally prevent any entry....

I bet we could rally that rather easily.


27 posted on 10/10/2014 6:29:24 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: BurningOak

“Play Dixie.” —Lincoln


28 posted on 10/10/2014 6:30:07 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Clay Moore

I’m ready to do something.


29 posted on 10/10/2014 6:30:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: BurningOak

What stuns me is how liberals keep claiming victory on this issue even though they actually lost it. A majority of states actually addressed the issue and passed amendments and/or laws against it. But the libs kept up the lawsuits while stacking the courts with liberals. Now they and their judicial pals usually announce victory with the claim that public opinion is on their side.

How cool is that? Lose an issue and then claim victory anyway. Conduct a poll (loaded in your favor of course) if you need data. But no matter how spectacularly you lose, CLAIM VICTORY.

Oh, and they also benefit from their shifting principles. They tout states rights when they need to start the avalanche with one state (and put an end to federal amendment talk). Then they get their liberal federal judges to override the other states.


30 posted on 10/10/2014 7:02:12 PM PDT by Penny 4 Thoughts
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To: BurningOak

Wow! I think this is why SCOTUS didn’t rule on those SSM bans, because if they did, they’d have to rule them legal. This way, it’ll be legal in 50 states before they rule state SSM bans are legal. They assume states won’t return to the ban of immoral mating pairing.


31 posted on 10/10/2014 8:50:10 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: BurningOak
When do we say ENOUGH?!

Not until we are singing....

All Aboard the Chattanooga Choo Choo

32 posted on 10/10/2014 11:29:41 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
How did 2-3% of the population get so much power?

Two wage earners and no children, more disposable income.

33 posted on 10/10/2014 11:32:59 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: itsahoot

Control of the primary channel of propaganda in this country, the Entertainment industry.


34 posted on 10/10/2014 11:38:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: BurningOak

Asheville, NC. Asshole capital of the South.


35 posted on 10/10/2014 11:44:52 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Mamzelle

We don’t call it Ashweird for nothing! My home town is not recognizable from my days growing up there 50 years ago!


36 posted on 10/11/2014 5:52:05 AM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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To: dfwgator

You said you were willing to move to the middle on the two social issues, I said there was no middle. Babies are alive until they are killed in an abortion, there is no middle for them. Dead is dead.


37 posted on 10/11/2014 6:30:18 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: dfwgator
Control of the primary channel of propaganda in this country, the Entertainment industry.

When Bonnie and Clyde, the Faye Dunaway version came out some 40 years ago, I went to see it, coming out of the movie I overheard a young guy say, "Makes me want to go out and kill a cop." Any doubt I had of the power of propaganda was quashed after that experience. I think that was in Joplin Missouri or Pittsburgh Kansas hard to remember now.

38 posted on 10/11/2014 6:39:43 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Esther MANheimer!!! LOL. Can’t make that stuff up. Sounds like she’s transgender...


39 posted on 10/12/2014 5:25:43 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: itsahoot

I believe they get lots of cash from Media Matter, Center for American Progress, and of course guys like Warren Buffett and Gates’ “charities.”


40 posted on 10/12/2014 5:27:04 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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