Amendment One to preserve white race?!

Oh boy. Say it's not so...
The Huffington Post is reporting that the wife of a North Carolina state senator reportedly told a poll worker during early voting Monday in Winston-Salem that the amendment to constitutionally define marriage between a man and woman as the only legal domestic union in North Carolina was intended partially to protect the Caucasian race.

The HuffPost said that according to the alternative Yes! Weekly, writer and campaigner Chad Nance spoke to a pollworker who told him that Jodie Brunstetter, wife of Republican state Sen. Peter Brunstetter, said: "The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce."

Talking Points Memo also reports on the alleged conversation between Nance and Jodie Brunstetter. The Daily Kos weighs in on the alleged comments too. Both TPM and the HuffPost detail an exchange Nance says he recorded between him and Jodie Brunstetter. Here's an excerpt:

Nance:
"You didn’t tell that one lady that it was to preserve the Caucasian race because they were becoming a minority?"

Brunstetter:
"No."

Nance:
"She’s lying?"

Brunstetter:
"No. It’s just that same sex marriages are not having children."

Nance:
"Yea but you didn’t say anything about Caucasians, white people, preserving them that’s why it was written?"

Brunstetter:
"No I’m afraid they have made it a racial issue when it is not."

Nance:
"She didn’t say it was a racial issue. She said that you had said that part of the reason it had been sponsored and written was to preserve the white race."
(a moment later) "… you didn’t say anything about Caucasians?"

Brunstetter:
"I probably said the word."

Sigh. There's more to the exchange, with Brunstetter allegedly ending up saying her comments were "hard to explain."

If true, yes, they are.

Posted by Fannie Flono