Apropos of Amendment One

[pegkerr]

Two good pieces of commentary re: Amendment One and Christianity.

How Evangelicals, with their stand against gay civil rights, are turning off the young from Christianity: How to win a culture war and lose a generation.

A challenge to both sides of the Amendment One debate (from the blog "Crumbs from the Communion table." The author is a gay

Comments

[pegkerr]

Thanks for that clarification! Will add it to the post.

[pennswoods]

These were amazing. Thank you for linking.

[cakmpls]

The first one is terrific. The second one is good, too, but I would be more convinced of the sincerity of North Carolina voters if not for this:

"Only 46 percent of voters realized that the amendment would ban civil unions for gay couples as well as marriage, according to a Public Policy Polling poll. A majority of North Carolina voters support civil unions."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/north-carolina-voters-banned-gay-marriage-civil-unions-011158194.html

The majority of the voters didn't even bother to find out exactly what they were voting on, just "no gay marriage!"