North Carolina Senate Overrides Governor's Veto To Revive Anti-Gay Marriage Bill

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The Huffington Post | By Dayana Morales Gomez
Posted: 06/02/2015 5:18 pm EDT

On Monday, the North Carolina state Senate overrode a veto by Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on a bill that allows government officials to recuse themselves from performing marriages based on their religious objections, effectively granting them the right to block legal same-sex marriages.

According to Reuters, the state House is expected to vote in favor of the bill since it previously cleared the chamber by a vote 67-43, which is more than the needed three-fifths majority to override the veto.

Although both the state House and Senate are controlled by Republicans, McCrory vetoed the legislation in May because he had vowed to uphold a district court ruling that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

“After they make the ruling, it is my duty to enforce the law,” he said in October. “And I will do just that. I will execute the law in a professional and respectful way. Whether I disagree with it or not, that's the way democracy works.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/north-carolina-gay-marriage_n_7496910.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Fuckers.

[randys1]

3. Fuckers who will want to go to war over this issue. I say let em

Who woulda thunk our 2nd and last civil war would have been over Gay Marriage.

[Leontius]

2. If you are a government official and you cannot perform the duties of your office

you should be fired or resign.

[safeinOhio]

4. Can they do the same for

officials that refuse to marry divorced Baptist?

These things tend to bit you in the ass later on.

[struggle4progress]

5. "... The bill now goes to the House, where Speaker Tim Moore said that he'll schedule

an override vote for Wednesday ..."
North Carolina Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Anti-Gay Marriage Bill
BY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE | JUNE 2, 2015
By Craig Jarvis and Colin Campbell
http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/nc-senate-overrides-marriage-bill-veto-oks-abortion-bill.html

[cbayer]

6. Very bad news. We need our people i NC to change the legislative control to democrats.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. We seem to have a problem with religion.

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8. We seem to have a problem with republicans

and telling the difference.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. so religion has nothing to do with this?

seriously?

[rug]

10. Oh, that's precisely what I wrote, isn't it?

Get back to me when you reply to what I actually write rather than whatever teleprompter is coursing through your synapses.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. My babble fish appears to be broken.

You did seem to be saying exactly that. When I wrote "We seem to have a problem with religion." You replied "We seem to have a problem with republicans and telling the difference." You are now claiming that you did not mean that we do not have a problem with religion. So I now have no idea what you meant. You appear to be in disputive babble mode instead.

[rug]

12. Your babble appears to be in fine working order.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. So basically you said nothing.

interesting, almost.

[rug]

14. And yet, it was more than you.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. No actually I said something that was clear in meaning.

You seem to have a problem doing that.

[rug]

16. Your meaning is qite clear, no matter how coyly you attempt it.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. Well at least one of us is not babbling then.

[rug]

18. That is entirely accurate.

[Warren Stupidity]

19. glad you agree.