Newspeak

This is staggering. I honestly don't recall any time I've seen reality turned so completely on its head. As quoted by David at Crooks & Liars:

"I've met with the opposition," Folwell said during a House Rules Committee debate. "And like in every bill that I've ever worked on, when I meet with with the opposition, I learn something. Recently I met with the professor over at -- [Dr. Maxine Eichner] from UNC Chapel Hill -- and I asked this question... Is it possible that if we don't bring certainty to this issue in North Carolina -- give people an opportunity to vote on it -- is it possible that people that she advocates for can actually lose rights?"

"What we just learned after I asked that question, today or last week the University of Rochester, a private institution in New York that previously gave health care rights to same sex couples, are now rescinding those rights by saying that if you want to receive health care benefits then you have to get married. So, that's a right that was taken away from a private institution because of laws being uncertain."

"Certainty"?! I mean, leave aside the fact that he's using an example from another state in which same-sex marriage is legal to bolster a constitutional amendment banning it, but "certainty"? Y'know, same-sex marriage is the law in New York and the NOMbots have a snowball's chance in hell of reversing that. And if the good, God-fearing rednecks of North Carolina manage to prevail at the polls on this one, there's every chance it would be overturned in federal court, if anyone ever gets around to filing a lawsuit. How that for "certainty"?

And just to be sure there's no evidence of political motivation, they've moved the bill up from the November general election, in which you can assume many voters of both parties will dutifully traipse to the polls, to the May primary -- except there is no Democratic primary in North Carolina next year, so guess who's going to be voting?

"Shame" is a term that vanished from the conservative lexicon quite a while ago, apparently.