Attention NC Voters

reasons-greetings:

There is a movement in NC that is standing against allowing same-sex marriage. Please vote to allow marriage between any two people who love each other. 

The ignorance and/or prejudice still clearly shown in my homestate and of many of my peers here at school is breaking my heart. Please vote to allow and permit love of any kind.

Thank you.

I would like very much to live and marry in a state where gay marriage is legal.

It makes me sick that I am afforded rights other people aren’t just because my partner has a penis :/

(Source: one-angry-liberal)

yesimanatheist:

Quality. 

atheismfuckyeah:

Former Metropolitan Police officer Brian Paddick has hit back at Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s comments on homosexuality.

The London Mayoral candidate has asserted that there is “no intellectual argument” against same-sex marriages.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien,  leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, accused the Government of arrogance ahead of a consultation on the issue this month. 

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he claimed that plans for gay marriage were a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right.”

He added: “The Government has suggested that same-sex marriage wouldn’t be compulsory and churches could choose to opt out. This is staggeringly arrogant.

“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”

But Paddick – who is gay – has hit back.

“Same-sex marriage should simply be a universally accepted human right for everyone,” he said.  

“If we really believe in equality, there is no sound intellectual argument against gay marriage. There may be religious objections, as there are religious objections to equality for women, but that does not mean we should be ruled by them.”

Meanwhile, the UK gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust has also slammed O’Brian’s condemnation.

George Broadhead, the PTT’s secretary and veteran gay activist, said: “Given the Roman Catholic Church’s well-known views and policy on gay sexual relationships and rights, including Civil Partnership, not to mention Cardinal O’Brian’s previous homophobic outbursts, his latest are totally predictable. His contention that gay marriage would shame the UK in the eyes of the world is also bizarre. 

“Has the cardinal not heard that gay marriage has already been legalised in no fewer than ten countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands? I am not aware that any of these countries have suffered shame or any sort of pariah status as a result. This just shows how out of touch with reality the Roman Catholic Church has become.”

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insciencewetrust:

Calling all my fellow atheists. This needs to stop getting notes.

When my boyfriend falls to his knees, it sure as hell isn’t because he’s praying.

I’m pretty okay with that.

If all marriage laws were based in Leviticus.