{"id":27827,"date":"2012-05-08T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/dear-north-carolina-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-again.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:36:17","slug":"dear-north-carolina-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/dear-north-carolina-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear North Carolina: On the Wrong Side of History Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really? You&#39;re so desperate to appear godly and anti-liberal and TEH GAYZZZ!!!! that you had to amend your constitution against gay marriage (or even recognizing straight couples living together but not married)? Jeez. Makes me glad to not be living there.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your collective trying to explain this vote to your children in ten years. Really.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117800110659124563147'>Think Progress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FACT: The last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage it was to ban interracial marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-t4DPdnc4EqU\/T6nUCgqTSeI\/AAAAAAAABKI\/ldEdvh2zaXw\/amnd1.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-t4DPdnc4EqU\/T6nUCgqTSeI\/AAAAAAAABKI\/ldEdvh2zaXw\/amnd1.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/abymnFg8uHg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? You&#39;re so desperate to appear godly and anti-liberal and TEH GAYZZZ!!!! that you had to amend your constitution against gay marriage (or even recognizing straight couples living together but not married)? Jeez. Makes me glad to not be living there. I look forward to your collective trying to explain this vote to your children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/dear-north-carolina-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear North Carolina: On the Wrong Side of History Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41862,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/religious-freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee-north-carolina-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":27827,"position":0},"title":"Religious freedom for me, but not for thee (North Carolina Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Apr-14 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have absolutely no doubt that all of those conservatives who have been so gung-ho about religious freedom such as to call requiring a secular employer to include birth control in insurances policies religious persecution, or to consider baking a cake a personal religious act ...... will be all over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7294,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/same_song_anoth.html","url_meta":{"origin":27827,"position":1},"title":"Same song, another verse &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Apr-05 3:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Since all the other problems and threats facing this country have been resolved, I guess the social conservatives have nothing better to do than start reintroducing all their \"Stop Those...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LGBTQ &amp;c&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &amp;c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11867,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/bzzzzt_thank_you_for_play.html","url_meta":{"origin":27827,"position":2},"title":"Bzzzzt &#8212; 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