decidedlyodd

While browsing around this morning, I ran across this article on a gay marriage ban in North Carolina. Interestingly, North Carolina has been the only southern state (well, there’s also Florida but that’s sort of a grey area when it comes to ‘the South’) to not pass one of these yet, largely because the governor’s mansion and both houses of the legislature are solidly held by the Democrats (red presidential voting doesn’t always mean red state office voting). Now, many (probably most) of those Democrats would vote for the constitutional ban if it came up, but their platform has been to not bring it up because it distracts from other more important issues. It will be unfortunate if the Republican minority can through procedural maneuvering force a vote on this issue, because there’s almost no question what the outcome will be if that happens–both houses will approve it and voters will support it in the election.