If PPP changed the wording, this makes it a toss-up.
I smell a legal battle. The gay rights movement has grown stronger over the years, and they won't just let this happen.
It'll happen but any challenge is likely to hinder their cause further. There is such a thing as pushing an agenda too far.
In the mid-1990s as a growing child, I learned about gay people and straight people...and didn't think any negativity about it either way. I didn't need to be bombarded by gay marriage, gay reality TV shows and gay celebrities coming out in highly publicized situations to change my viewpoint one way or another. If anything, getting this stuff shoved down our throats is quite possibly making people less open to the idea of gay marriage.
As I've said before, don't put the cart before the horse. You can have too much of a good thing and go too far and that's exactly why we don't have nationwide gay marriage. You're going too far.
Same is true for many other issues, even something like child obesity. Of course we should do all we can to decrease obesity, but by San Francisco banning Happy Meals at McDonalds...something that has become part of Americana....you're going too far.
Having teachers suggest banning white paper because they believe it instills racism at an early age for children...people are going insanely too far. It's making you look more nuts.
PETA wants to protect animal rights, okay...their cause. Let it be. But then to propose that an Oklahoma town of 3,000 named Slaughterville change it's name to "Veggieville" is taking it too far. The majority of people are gonna react by thinking y'all are nuts.
So in the final analysis, I don't think it's as much that people disagree, it's just that you don't want to overstep your boundaries. Liberals always do this, and that for them as equated to 27 of the last 42 years having Republican Presidents and a Supreme Court tilted to the right. The scariest part is that my liberal friends tell me that they see President Obama as not liberal enough.
That's... no.
You aren't pushing an agenda "too far" by asking for equality. And most of the stuff you said is just irrelevant. What does the media glamorizing something have to do with something as basic as marriage equality? Challenging the amendment, if it passes, isn't pushing it "too far". It isn't impossible to overturn, either. Just look at what's going on in California. Prop 8 isn't even on the books anymore and got thrown in the court system to be dealt with.
This amendment is a complete waste of time. All it will do is waste time and make the state of North Carolina viewed very unfavorably.
