Paul Stam, the Rep. Bigot

The 2009 legislative session has just begun and our state faces huge challenges: rising unemployment, a growing budget shortfall, crumbling infrastructure, and a broken mental health system, to name a few.

So what does NC House Republican Leader Paul Stam spend his time worrying about? Creating jobs? Repairing bridges? Helping those who've lost everything in the downturn?

Nope. He's too busy making sure that my partner and I don't have-and will never have-any rights or recognition in this state.

Yep, within the first hours of the session, Stam made clear that writing anti-gay discrimination into North Carolina's constitution was a top priority for him this session.

I would have to wonder how he got in bed with these bigots. Just how much or what is he getting in return to push this through? Is it money, land, or could it be a Baptist’s virgin? Which is hard to find, unless the virgin in question is under 11?

I check out his web site, and found the following,

Each year thousands of bills are introduced. I will support those, which promote:

• Clean water through regional cooperation;
• Empowering parents to ensure quality schooling for their children;
• Fairness to state employees;
• More freedom, Less government;
• Prolife protection for mothers and children;
• Protection for your property from condemnation abuse.
• Stopping illegal immigration;
• Traffic solutions;

I will continue to fight wasteful spending, including hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to out-of-state corporations. State government’s 19% increase in spending over two years (2006-2008) is not sustainable.

Well let’s see, quality schooling, yet the school budget being cut, why? More freedom, yet he would deny those who need protection the most.

To me, this is just another old windbag, selling his services to the highest bidder.

I have to wonder what he did with all his time while attending Michigan State University. I bet he might had attended Woodstock as well, party with the party goers and try some special cool-aid, however I’m sure he was no virgin when he got married.. I would have to guess he did not have the right stuff to be a true marine, since he was only in the service for two years before his honorable discharge.

Then there is this,

Received Achievement Award for Outstanding Legislator from N.C. Victims Assistance Network, 1990. Voted Most Effective Freshman Representative in 1989 by N.C. Center for Public Policy Research. Received Certificate of Appreciation from U. S. Department of Justice, for "Outstanding dedication and service on behalf of crime victims" for National Crime Victims Rights Week 1990.

So does this mean that he would be an advocate for those LGBT members who have been bashed, shot, and kill solely on hate?? One would have to wonder.

Courts and legislators, applying common sense, have known for thousands of years that the basic building block for any society is the family.

Very interesting, yet when kids don’t do as the parents wishes, some of these so-called building blocks basically throw their children out in the streets. Where most of these young kids become criminals and or killed/die on the streets. I guess these so-called good parents did their best (which most will claim they are good Christians folks). What about those block who would rather put their mentally ill kids in state run institutions instead of caring for their kids, yet when these kids are abuse in these institutions. These same parents run to the nearest law office seeking to sue. As Dixie Carter said in Designing Women, we don’t hide our crazies; we display them on the front porch for the world to see.