North Carolina Amendment One Same-Sex Marriage

Once again the progs are going bathsh*t crazy, this time amid the controversy over North Carolina's Amendment 1.

Some pastor is now rightly disavowing his stupid remarks about beating up your gay kids. See: "Berean Baptist pastor disavows advice to punch gay kids as a joke." (At Memeorandum.)

And that story gives gay radical extremist Pam Spaulding an opening, "This is the ‘Christian love’ we are up against: NC Baptist preacher calls for beating the gay out of kids."

Meanwhile, despite the circus antics on both sides, a large majority of the state's voters favor the amendment. See PPP, "Amendment One still up 14 points in N.C.":

Raleigh, N.C. – There has been no movement on North Carolina’s proposed marriage amendment since PPP last released a poll a week ago.  Likely primary voters are still planning to vote for the amendment by a 14-point margin, this time 55-41, rather than 54-40.

Opposition is rising slightly with Republicans, independents, and African Americans, from 17% to 21% with the GOP, from 43% to 46% with independents, and from 39% to 43% with black voters.  Democrats on the whole are opposed by a 54-42 spread.  Reports of strong youth turnout in parts of the state could be a good sign for opponents; voters under the age of 30 oppose the amendment by 26 points, while the elder age brackets all support it by spreads of nine to 24 points—though that is down from margins of 16 to 32 points last week.

The good news for the amendment’s opponents is that more voters are now aware of the amendment’s consequences, and if all voters were informed of those consequences, the amendment would fail by a 38-46 margin, the same as last week.  A 40% plurality now knows that the amendment would ban both same-sex marriage and civil unions, versus 36% in the previous survey.  Those who know what the amendment would do are against it by 22 points, but they are outweighed by the strong support from the uneducated.

That's a tough amendment, but it's up to the voters. I think civil unions are fine personally. But we'll see. I think North Carolina wants to put up a big, burly firewall against the radical left's gay rights extremism, and that's probably the way to go, considering everything else these days.