Bev Perdue, the governor of North Carolina (who is a Democrat) is pretty horrified at North Carolina’s amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage. “We look like Mississippi,” she said.
Bev Perdue
It’s not just a question of gay marriage. Lots of states don’t have legal gay marriage. A majority of them, in fact. And North Carolina was already among them. Not only had they never legalized gay marriage, they had passed a law actively prohibiting gay marriage. All the constitutional amendment does is to put it on the record that that is one of the basic, primary, core values of the people of that state that no homosexuals should ever get married, ever, ever, ever.
It’s not just the stupidity of it that makes NC look like MS, it’s the viciousness and the code orange level of paranoia. Really, if your not gay, gay marriage should not be a big deal. It’s weird that people think about it that much.
But the whole thing of various southern states saying “Well, at least we’re not Mississippi” is nothing new. When Clinton was president, all the jokes were about Arkansas, like “What do you call a 13 year old girl in Arkansas who can run faster than her brother?” (A virgin) or “What’s the state vegetable of Arkansas?” (Pump kin.) You could substitute Mississippi…or Tennessee…or Georgia, squeal like a pig country…or South Carolina…or Alabama…or any of them, really, including North Carolina. Just because they have North in the name, they’re still a Southern state.
Governor Perdue’s comment gives me hope that they could, eventually, be brought into the blue column, but the passage of the amendment itself says otherwise.
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