Cross-post from UNCG Campus Watch
The Constitution of the State of North Carolina guarantees the General Assembly will provide that “the benefits of The University of North Carolina… as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the State free of expense” (Article IX, Sec 9). With the counting of out-of-state athletes as in-state students, [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Jun 25
Turning our backs on the People of the State
Jun 25
An ungodly act: Parents with no love
I don’t usually do international news or blog on topics from around the world (unless it is either extremely disturbing, very important or somehow connected to the Episcopal/Anglican Church), but I felt I needed to post and discuss this one.
According to an article from 365gay.com News (see also an article from South Africa), the eldest [...]
Jun 25
So what if we’ve been in power for hundreds of years
I got home last night after the State Democratic Convention meaning to put up a post on the Convention, but site was down. I knew it was going to happen. Sue and the web company were doing updates and some maintenance to the server.
The North Carolina State Democratic Covention, held down in High Point, was [...]
Jun 24
Off with the donkeys…
Today is the biennial convention of the North Carolina State Democratic Party. I’ll be off to that down in High Point, along with some other UNCG College Dem folk.
We are going to be in activist training by the DNC from about 9am to Noon. At noon the convention will start. Later in the evening we [...]
Jun 24
Bank of America stops support of BSA – backlash ensues
Cross-posted from InclusiveScouting.net
According to an article from the Southern Voice, one of the LGBT community’s largest corporate sponsors, Bank of America, announced in April 2006 it would stop its corporate support of the Alapaha Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Georgia.
The Bank’s Charitable Foundation said it could not continue to support a [...]
Jun 24
Anti-gay church gets a message from God?
I don’t know… but it is very possible. Hey… if God supposedly caused Hurricane Katrina because of us “abominable homosexuals” or if God really did create AIDS to cure our “sinful lifestyles,” then maybe God did this, too.
Yesterday, during the horrible rains and storms which hit the Piedmont-Triad area of the state, Berean Baptist Church [...]
Jun 23
While we’re on the subject….
Unlike stealing our Bill of Rights, the Yankees did have something right: Equality for all Americans. Looks as though the South is being backward again.
This from Ruby Sinreich at BlueNC.com:
Southern Whites v. Voting Rights
June 23, 2006
I just got this important message from Bob Hall, long-standing freedom fighter for democracy in North Carolina:
Good people,
White Southern Members [...]
Jun 23
Those darned Yankees
This isn’t a post on gay rights, politics or religion… I’m fully aware. I had to take a moment to be a history geek.
Well… it seems as though North Carolina gets to keep its copy of the Bill of Rights after all. The former co-owner of our Bill of Rights says that the state illegally [...]
Jun 23
Triangle weekly features LGBT-inclusive coverage
The Independent Weekly, a paper based out of the Triangle, has three great pieces dealing with LGBT rights and the LGBT community. Two are gust columns and one is a column from one of their staff writers. This issue of the paper features a “Stonewall anniversary” section to recognize Pride month and the historic turn [...]
Jun 23
WS Journal: Church must keep a focus
The Winston-Salem Journal published a great staff editorial today regarding the election of the Episcopal Church’s new presiding bishop and the issue of LGBT people in the life of the church:
New Leadership
June 23, 2006
They’re back. Three summers ago, when members of the Episcopal Church elected their first openly gay bishop, they rocked the rest of [...]
