One of the absolutely sucky fall-out effects of the 2010 mid-term election backlash was that North Carolina's General Assembly has gone Republican for the first time in 140 years. And that means that narrow-minded stupid-heads with singular agenda obsessions can finally get their way on divisive and discriminatory legislation. For years, a group of pinheads (Paul Stam of Apex, Jim Forrester of Gaston County, and Dale Folwell of Kernersville) have been beating a drum to get the hateful "marriage amendment" question on a statewide ballot. North Carolina is the only southern state that has never passed this "Christian" foolishness.
The legislature has reported back to Raleigh for a special session just to consider this, at a ridiculous cost to the taxpayer (the session's financial tally could have employed three or four more teachers next year, for instance). So the Roediger House is bringing together a gaggle of cool and forward-thinking people who consider equality much more fundamental to our civil society than hate and discrimination (although our nation's history has more than its share of that).
Part of the enticement was homemade pork barbecue (two kinds: pulled pork with a sweeter sauce, and a traditional eastern North Carolina vinegar-based); two kinds of coleslaw (traditional southern coleslaw with relish and chow chow, and Ina Garten's blue cheese coleslaw); and lemon custard ice cream (using the recipe from the mother of Donna Whitley-Smith up in Page County, Virginia).
Eighteen folks came for dinner, and fifteen journeyed up the street to the candlelight vigil held in Grace Court.
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