Sen. Jim Forrester doesn't use Facebook.
The Gaston County Republican was not aware that the popular online social networking site had several groups for and against his bill to ban gay marriage.
But he had suspected that people were coordinating their responses, since he has gotten clusters of e-mails with similar wording from opponents of the bill at times over the past few months.
"They come in waves," he told Dome. "It looks like somebody in a gay or lesbian group has contacted their members. The ones that are for the bill tend to come in separately."
Forrester does not even have a campaign Web site, but he applauded the efforts of North Carolinians to use the Internet to organize — even against his bill.
"This is a democracy," he said. "People are allowed to speak out for and against things they don't like. That's the way it should be."
