Kannapolis PD has said they're investigating, and at bare minimum he could be facing charges for unlawful discharge of a firearm within city limits.
Looked like a light-gauge gun, probably a .410 with pellet shot based on the size of the holes in the paper. So while it was intended as a snarky asshole prank cause "screw them queers, dude", here's hoping it comes back to bite the dude in the ass hard. Although I'm sure if he does, he'll become a poster-boy for FOX News and the like, screaming how he's being made an example of by "the extremist gay activist lobby".
Best comment I've seen re: this was "Obviously, he thought the sign was wearing a hoodie and thus, up to no good."
We have one of those "Defense of Marriage" amendments on the ballot here in NC next week. Support has been pretty split, but discussion has been mostly civil.
And also the fact that gay marriage isn't actually legal in NC to begin with; they just want to make it more illegal.
I know. We have to make it doubleplus ungood. Not just for gays but for any kind of couple other than a legally married heterosexual one. That's what kills me. The one silver lining in all this is that if it does pass, there's going to be a lot of surprised rednecks with live-in girlfriends/boyfriends and a whole new mess of legal problems.
Basically they're amending the State Constitution. Gay marriage is illegal in NC and most other states, but that's not enough it seems. Now it has to be unconstitutional. Not that any judge in NC was ever going to make gay marriage legal, but now if gay marriage is against the constitution, then the judge literally couldn't. Granted, judges are biased things, but making something unconstitutional isn't necessary.
It's unfortunate that judges often ignore the law and are corrupt as all hell by large entities at the expense of the individual. Just had a credit card case where the Credit Card Company screwed up the paperwork massively. We aren't saying defendant doesn't owe something, we're saying prove the amount of damages. Judge lets CC company win on summary judgment without a trial, knowing we can't afford to appeal her. Worse, at the rotary club meeting, judge gives speech about how "young people shouldn't get off on technicalities." O really? I guess only credit card companies should get off on those? Yeah, they can put whatever they want on the court papers...
So while judges often ignore the law, it's rarely in favor of individuals or unpopular political causes. In NC, gay marriage is not a popular political cause. The risk of a judge doing anything about it that'd be good for gays is slim to nil. Thus, the additional hurdle of making it unconstitutional is totally unnecessary, because even if you had one sensible judge, they'd be up on appeal with one who wasn't....
So yeah, they have to make it literally unconstitutional, because "illegal" isn't enough. Super Illegal.... Great.
As for the live in girlfriends/boyfriends. Unless you have a palimony statute, then it honestly won't effect them too terribly much. Unless they've got like a wife and a girlfriend or who knows what else. Domestic violence victims and others will feel it, though no one seems to care.
I love being constitutionally considered a second or third class class citizen.... Hopefully future people will look back on this with shame, if nothing else happens. This is basically the anti integration/pro racist shit that happened in the jim crow/civil rights movement era. People don't like a certain thing and the courts mandate it, so they fight back to preserve their prejudice. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.... What is the equal and opposite reaction to civil rights?
Depending upon which polling company you believe support for the amendment is either up or
down.