Last week, news outlets covered the tearful statement by Kentucky's attorney general where he said he could not defend that state's ban on gay marriage. Meanwhile, as NC's Amendment One is challenged in court, our own attorney general has remained silent.
Will you join the attorney general of Kentucky, Mr. Cooper, and do the right thing? Or will liberals be too embarrassed to cast a vote for you in the governor's race in 2016?
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We've long since passed the point
where integrity, personal values and doing the right thing matter. Except for a very few (Elizabeth Warren comes to mind), it's all triangulation. And in that sordid practice, Cooper is a master.
That said, McCrory is worse by far. The 2016 race will come down to who has managed to piss off the fewest number of people.
He'll get a chance to respond to this question
on the campaign trail if he doesn't respond sooner, at events that allow public Q&A, on twitter, on facebook, on any live blogs, etc. Why defend it discrimination if you oppose discrimination and if the US Attorney General has instructed you not to defend discriminatory marriage bans?
AG Holder says AG Cooper doesn't have to defend it
Eric Holder said state AGs don't have to defend marriage bans specifically or any law they view as discriminatory in general. So at this point, it's his call, but he's not under obligation to defend it unless he believes in the ban as something that isn't discriminatory.
I refer to my previous answer re Cooper and LGBT issues
from a previous thread about this topic...