North Carolina, the intellectual capital of the nation has spoken, gays and lesbians are not welcomed. Voters just approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and civil unions. As draconian and backward leaning that sounds, they actually did it with an overwhelming margin.
The amendment, defines marriage between a man and a woman as the only legally recognized domestic union in the state. We're still checking to determine if this amendment is species specific. North Carolinians have already block gay and lesbian couples from marrying, but they apparently wanted to emphasis the intolerance by strengthening their constitution to be in line with other southeastern states.
When it comes to the hot issues like race, gender, gay and lesbian rights, the right to chose, religious tolerance and immigration, America is as hopelessly divided as its ever been. Although their been recent polling to suggest a slight tilt to the left on the most divisive issues among the nation's youth, their is a significant demographic, hanging on to life long enough to skew results.
If anyone ever ask if we can all just get along, tell them the results say hell no! Well for now anyway. Perhaps America made a grave error by keeping the country together. Maybe we'd all be better off if the nation separated between The Cool and The Others.
Explanation given in todays podcast. Time permitting, we'll expound tomorrow
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