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Latest efforts by North Carolina leftists to mainstream homosexual lifestyles succeeded this week in the North Carolina General Assembly. Senate Bill 526 was sold to lawmakers under the pretense of stopping bullies in our schools. Under the guise of standing up for victimized children, the bill’s advocates successfully convinced the narrowest majority to include sexual orientation for the first time in a state statute. Misleadingly titled the “School Violence Prevention Act,” the bill began its journey during the last legislative session. Despite passing the House during the 2007 long session, the bill languished in the Senate and was never passed...

Many gay activists compare their current “civil rights” struggles with those faced by blacks in the segregated South in the 1950s. The comparison is deemed offensive by many blacks, given that the average black income is still much lower than the average white income in America. Blacks’ educational attainment still falls well below that of white Americans, even fifty years after the landmark Brown decision. By contrast, gay Americans are wealthier and more educated than their straight counterparts. Nonetheless, lesbian millionaire (and North Carolina Senator) Julia Boseman thinks they need a helping hand. That’s why her family started a special...

It sounds like one of those Jeff Foxworthy jokes, doesn’t it?  ''If directions to your house include what to do after you turn off the dirt road, you might be a redneck.''  ''If your grandmother wakes you up in the middle of the night and says ‘come look at this before I flush it,’ you might be a redneck.''  ''If you introduce someone to your brother and the father of your child and there’s just one guy standing there, you might be a redneck.'' You know the bit.         But this article isn’t about a redneck.  It’s about Julia Boseman,...