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NOTE FROM PAM: There’s a must-read today on Vote For Marriage NC by Scott Wooledge: “Oops. I exposed the ‘notorious leftist’ ‘radical agenda’ of Daily Kos. Sorry.”
When your ideas are morally bankrupt, as is the case of people who are pimping Amendment One to enshrine discrimination in NC’s constitution, you can’t win on logical arguments based on civil law. You have to load up a bus and drive around to convince North Carolinians to vote to “save marriage from the homosexuals” using religion-based bigotry and try to pollute the minds of children by offering up gifts and candy.
This is the broken world of Vote for Marriage NC and the Values Bus rolling around the state in support of right-wing candidates and the ballot initiative that is coming up on May 8:
Feel free to let them know how you feel about pimping bigotry to children from its “Values Bus”: http://www.facebook.com/Vote4MarriageNC
Who’s behind this Values Bus? Tami Fitzgerald, Chair of VoteFORMarriageNC.com, is proud to hang out with the professional bigots at the Family Research Council, which is of course, headed up by Tony Perkins. Back in 2010, Perkins “couldn’t recall” hanging out with/speaking to the Council of Conservative Citizens (photo), another org — like the FRC — that has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Apparently he passes muster with Vote for Marriage NC even though Perkins also procured the mailing list of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Peas in a pod, I guess that’s fine with Tami.
FRC Action blogger Connie Mackey is proud of the work of the Values Bus on its bus stops in NC. From “The Cloakroom“:
Yesterday, I met with Pastor Greg Mathis of the Mud Creek Baptist Church in Hendersonville, providing an opportunity to talk with him about FRC and the Champion program. Pastor Mathis, like all North Carolinians we have met with, is concerned that the marriage amendment, which will be on the ballot May 8, passes and gives North Carolina the same protected status for one man, one woman marriage that 30 other states have set up. Joining the FRC Team in front of the Values Bus was Mark Meadows, a candidate for the 11th District Congressional seat. The FRCAction PAC has endorsed Mark. He and his wife Debbie and their family have been friends of FRC for twenty plus years and we have witnessed his commitment to faith, family, and freedom.
Folks can ask Mark Meadows why he embraces the Family Research Council and Vote for Marriage NC: http://www.facebook.com/MeadowsforCongress
UPDATE: From the latest garbage e-blast from Fitzgerald, again, trying to hide behind “religious freedom”:
Preserving marriage is vital for protecting religious liberty in North Carolina. If activists were to redefine marriage for society, citizens, small businesses and religious organizations whose own beliefs are at odds with the new definition of marriage will find themselves subjected to legal consequences if they do not comply with the new definition of marriage. That’s why we need your support to pass the Marriage Protection Amendment on May 8th.
…One of the very reasons our country was founded was to protect religious liberty. Now, the freedom to practice our religious beliefs is under attack. We urge you to join us in protecting religious liberty by donating to this battle to keep marriage between one man and one woman.
As a reminder, you are also invited to join us as we rally for marriage across North Carolina with the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council on the Values Bus Tour. For more information about how you can help defend marriage in North Carolina, visit VoteForMarriageNC.com. Campaigns cost money, and this campaign is in its most critical time for mobilizing our forces. Making a generous donation to protect marriage from radical re-definition is the best way you can help. I hope you will!
Sincerely,
Tami L. Fitzgerald
Chairwoman, Vote FOR Marriage NC
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On the positive side — fighting that bigotry on the bus — the Campaign to Protect All NC Families is holding Speaker’s Bureau trainings this weekend to help people speak to their friends, neighbors and local businesses about the harmful, unintended consequences that will hurt children and families throughout North Carolina. See details below the fold.
Here are the dates and locations:
Raleigh
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 3-5 pm (free)
Pullen Baptist Memorial Church – Finlator Hall
http://www.pullen.org/page/contact-us
1801 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27605
Chapel Hill
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 6-8pm (Free)
http://www.unitedchurch.org/directions-united-church
United Church of Chapel Hill – Fellowship Hall
1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Asheville
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5:30-8:00 PM (free)
University of North Carolina Asheville
Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall 139
http://www2.unca.edu/campusmap/karpen.htm
You can RSVP by clicking here: http://www.protectallncfamilies.org/speakers-bureau
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Don’t go near a bus where a stranger is offering you candy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4cqTBA6L44
You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught – Matthew Morrison & Paulo Szot (South Pacific)
http://www.youtube.com
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You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
“Hey, little girl. Want some candy? It’s in my van. Come on…”
And they accuse US of recruiting children???
Could someone please get a confirmation that this photo has not been manipulated in any way? I ask because if you go to the large version of the photo and examine it closely it looks as if they lady in the foreground in the black dress has three feet and is hovering over the asphalt. Also if you look closely one of the yellow parking lines seems to be visible through the back of her dress coat, the edge of which is quite oddly blurred.
And now that I look at it, the image of the child in front of the lady in black (in blue jeans and turquoise shirt) doesn’t seem right either.
Does anyone else see this or is it just my paranoid delusions acting up again. :-p
Haha. Wow. No it’s not just you. The three feet are clearly visible and there is no adult standing behind her. From her coat seems like there are two or three layers of her there. You can also see that weird effect with the kid next to her.
Or maybe it’s just the camera acting up?
This event was at Patrick Wooden’s Upper Room Church of God / Christian Academy in Raleigh, in the parking lot between the church and the school. It looks like students and staff were led out to participate.
Information included on photo:
I would suspect that if an iPhone camera was to malfunction it would either just not take the picture or would take a picture and save it as a corrupt file that was unable to be displayed. I would not think it would add very specific things to a photo. (eg. a third foot)
But I’m no expert on these things so I could be wrong.
iPhone HDR mode takes 3 shots. Good for stills, not for movement.
The third foot can come from either taking several pictures and overlaying them or exposing it for too long. Think about what happens when you take a long exposure photo of something that moves rapidly
Caught a couple of other oddities:
On the right side of the picture the child in the yellow t-shirt has a double exposure of his hand. And the girl in pink just to the right of the woman in black. Notice how the arm of the young person right behind her has the pattern of her dress superimposed over their arm.
That’s got to be some really weird iPhone malfunction to only affect a couple of areas and not the whole picture. But as I said before I’m no expert.
That would probably explain the oddities. I don’t own an iPhone so I can’t experiment to see if I can reproduce the anomalies in the photograph. I’ll mark this one as mystery solved as it does sound like a reasonable explanation.
(this was supposed to be a reply to gregflynn at #9)