Gay marriage bill a divisive distraction (Hendersonville NC Times-News)

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Published: Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 4:48 p.m.

More than one in seven Americans live in poverty. Our troops are stuck in a bloody quagmire in Afghanistan. The country may be slipping into another recession, and government is too gridlocked to do anything about it. And in North Carolina, we’re getting ready to focus our energies on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage ...

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110915/ARTICLES/109151003/1016/OPINION02?Title=Gay-marriage-bill-a-divisive-distraction

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1. It feels threatening to me.

The minority scape goat for every body else's bad times.

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2. I hear you.

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3. Although these actions are hurtful to gay Americans and

.... hurtful to any American with a sense of decency but this has nothing to do w/ "teh gays" but with
how some republicans used to and now how just about all republicans act. They need a boogie
man to keep people riled up about something so they don't pay attention to the facts.

It all started w/ Joe McCarthy and his hunt for commies in the U.S. Government ..... Commies got replaced
w/ labor / unions ....... which turned into intellectuals and teachers .... which turned into "the Jews" .....
which turned into atheists ..... which turned into "flag burners" ..... which turned into radical environmentalists
...... which turned into illegal aliens ...... which turned into brown people ...... which turned into people who
want to put sharia law into effect into America.