Tag: North Carolina

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Lawrence O’Donnell addresses Pastor Sean “punch your gay son” Harris debacle

Lawrence O’Donnell addresses the scandal and the “apology” of Pastor Sean Harris.

The pastor also called in to the Michelangelo Signorile show yesterday to explain his sermon and apology. That didn’t go so well either.

At this point the pastor should probably stop talking and start thinking about his next sermon…

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Pastor Sean Harris urges fathers to punch their ‘girlish’ sons

Jeremy Hooper at Good as You has posted some extremely disturbing audio identified as Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, giving his congregation a “special dispensation” to beat their children if they think they might be falling outside of gender norms.

Harris also urged his congregation to vote for North Carolina’s Amendment One in an hourlong sermon posted on Sunday.

Says Harris at the beginning of his horrifying rant:

“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.”

He adds:

“Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”

Harris has advice for parents who think their daughters might be acting too butch:

“And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. And you say, ‘Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.'”

Adds Harris: “Can I take charge like that as a parent? Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.”
(source)

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Every1Against1 – May 1, 2012

Simply put, Amendment One is an unnecessary, thinly veiled attack on civil rights — a gross injustice to North Carolina’s unmarried couples, children, families, seniors, women and businesses.

If Amendment One passes, what’s next? It would mark the first time the North Carolina constitution was amended in order to discriminate against specific individuals. This flies in the face of the state’s tradition of amending the constitution to increase equality.

Make history – don’t repeat it. Vote NO on Amendment One in North Carolina May 8th.

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NC: A man, a rifle and a defenseless sign

Funny how proud & cool this guy thinks he is for shooting a sign.

Yep – he really took care of things.
(via JMG)

UPDATE – May 1, 2012: Cabarrus County deputies spent more than an hour at the teen’s home after learning about the video. They believe the 17-year-old Jonathan Wiles took the sign from an intersection and set it up in his backyard where he recorded himself firing several shots at it.

County officials said its investigation is not over. There is a county ordinance that deals with using firearms near other homes. Officials are also looking into the possibility of additional charges.

More here.

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NC: Amendment One – Every1Against1

Same-sex marriage is already illegal in North Carolina. Which means voting AGAINST Amendment One is not a vote to legalize same-sex marriage.

Amendment One (SB514) is a proposed change to Article 14 of the North Carolina State Constitution that will appear before the voters on the May 8, 2012 primary ballot across North Carolina. Amendment One is not only an ideological assault on the civil rights of LGBT North Carolinians, it’s also a poorly written law that will have serious negative, unintended and harmful consequences on North Carolina’s children, families, seniors, women and businesses.

Stating that, “Marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State,” Amendment One aims to turn all unmarried couples — whether same-sex or opposite-sex — into second-class citizens unworthy of basic dignity and fair treatment.

Vote NO on Amendment One in North Carolina on May 8th.

More info here.

How you can help – click here.

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Video: Lies about Amendment One in North Carolina

I expected something very heavy and legally dense when I clicked on this video.

Instead, what I got was a very clear demonstration of the kind of sideways rhetoric that anti-gay groups put out to keep the LGBT community second class citizens.

One person who attended the service called this “A political message disguised as a sermon.” Take a look.

This shows not only the lies but the truths about Amendment One.

Click here to see how you can help stop discrimination in North Carolina.

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NC: Newt Gingrich, with three marriages to date, supports the “sanctity” of marriage


Newt Gingrich, a serial adulterer who has three marriages under his belt, has made a video urging North Carolina voters to pass ‘Amendment One’, which would ban same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in the state, in a new video.

As two new ads noted yesterday, it would also harm children by taking away health insurance, and it would jeopardize the safety of domestic violence victims.

Vote NO on Amendment One in North Carolina.