Coming to a pulpit near you -- maybe today; the primary election is Tuesday -- pandering politicians, according to Donald Q. Fozard, who shepherds the flock over there at Mount Zion Christian Church.

And if you church folks sit back in your pews and let those City Council candidates get up there and flap their gums and smile real big without checking them on their views about same-sex marriage, then you need to question your Christianity, the pastor put forth.

Back in August, the City Council voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution to extend civil-marriage rights to same-sex couples. The passage prompted a standing ovation at City Hall.

"The city councilmen are just playing political correctness to the gay community," Fozard said.

Well, let's be accurate. It technically wasn't just the men on the City Council who voted for the resolution. The women y'all elected were in on it, too. The vote was unanimous. That means all of 'em approved of the measure.

"From Bill Bell all the way down to Howard Clement," Fozard said. "The people who believe in God should turn them out of office."

Did I tell you the primary election is Tuesday?

This stuff started because Durham resident Joshua Lee Weaver feels like he's entitled to the family dream that features kids in the back yard and all of that. Thing is, dude's not trying to have that dream with a woman. Weaver's homosexual. He wants to lie in bed and have that dream with another man!

And that dream's a nightmare to Fozard.

What, that makes Fozard homophobic -- the way former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's blanketed belief relegates to racists people who push back against Barack Obama's politics?

Here, some news you can use before you vote on Tuesday: City Council Ward 2 challenger Sylvester Williams is opposed to the same-sex marriage resolution. Ward 2 challengers Darius Little and Sandra Howell said they would've voted for it. Mayoral candidate Steven Williams, Ward 1 hopefuls Donald Hughes and John Tarantino, Ward 2 challenger Matt Drew and Ward 3 candidate Allan Polak believe City Council members overstepped their political bounds by approving the resolution.

Now, according to the way the elected folks do math up there on the state level, 1 man + 1 woman = a marriage. The resolution City Council members agreed on amounts to veiled pressure to change state law. Politicians in Chapel Hill and Carrboro have passed same-sex resolutions and are up to the same thing.

At the very least, appreciate Fozard's logic: Let's say there are three islands. One has 25 couples of gay men. Another has 25 lesbian couples. And the other one has 25 heterosexual couples. "A hundred years from now, which island will survive? Which island will still produce people?" Fozard asked.

You need me to answer that?

Digressing here, but the Nike people are getting cozy with Michael Vick after cutting him loose when he caught those dogfighting charges. But don't sit there for a minute and believe the Nike people are genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of the reserve quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. There's money to be made off Vick.

And Fozard would tell you the same thing about these politicians who say they're for same-sex marriage -- they don't truly care about gay people.

"They are politicians. They only care about themselves," Fozard said.

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