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North Carolina: 60% oppose Amendment One
Sixty percent of people in North Carolina oppose a proposed constitutional amendment which would ban gay marriage in the state, a new poll has found.
While only 38 percent of respondents to an Elon University Poll released Monday said they support gay marriage, a majority (60%) said they are opposed to Amendment One, while 32 percent said that they favor the amendment. A majority of respondents (67%) favor either marriage (38%) or civil unions (29%) for gay couples. Only 29 percent say gay couples deserve no legal recognition.
Voters will decide on the measure during North Carolina’s May 8 primary.
If approved, the amendment would bar North Carolina from recognizing the relationships of gay and lesbian couples with marriage, civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships.
Donate to defeat anti-gay Amendment One in North Carolina
On September 13th, the North Carolina Legislature proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would ban legal recognition for all unmarried couples, strip protections and benefits from families across our state, hurt our business climate and economic development and put our children in danger.
The Coalition to Protect North Carolina Families is a coalition of groups, individuals and families dedicated to defeating this amendment at the polls on May 8 and protecting North Carolina from the harms it represents.
The Heritage Foundation, NOM and other anti-gay groups who fund these kinds of harmful amendments around the country are coming in with millions of dollars to try and misinform all of North Carolina about this amendment.
Protect All Families has launched a “moneybomb” to raise funds to help raise awareness and spread the truth about writing hate into the North Carolina constitution.
Please donate what you can to help Protect All Families by going here.
North Carolina Gov. Perdue tweets opposition to anti-gay Amendment One
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) has expressed her opposition to Amendment One, which bans all same-sex marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships:
NC Legislature May Vote Today on Anti-Marriage Equality Bill
Today HRC and Equality North Carolina staff and volunteers are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the anti-marriage equality amendment goes down in defeat. The delivery of 45,000 postcards to legislators is underway, as is the delivery of a letter signed by nearly 500 clergy and people of faith. The NC legislature is poised to take up the discriminatory bills this week, and will likely vote today or tomorrow. Should they pass these bills, a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality will appear on the 2012 ballot.
If you live in North Carolina, your legislator needs to hear from you today. Please contact your legislators right now and urge them to oppose these hateful bills.
Click here to send a message to the North Carolina General Assembly.
UPDATE: North Carolina lawmakers not only started debate, it’s already passed through committee and is on its way to the House floor for a vote.
This morning, LGBT rights advocates in the state say Republicans ushered the bill through the House Rules Committee in less than an hour despite objections from Democrats. The bill could be voted on in the House by day’s end.
Poll: Majority of North Carolinians Oppose Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage
From Equality North Carolina: Fifty-six percent (56%) of North Carolina voters oppose or strongly oppose an amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage, a five-point jump in the last two years, according to a February 2011 Elon University Poll, a non-partisan polling service.
The poll also showed a strong majority (57%) of North Carolinians support marriage or civil unions for same-sex couples, revealing a dramatic 9% increase in public support for marriage equality in only two years. This result mirrors two separate polls conducted by Public Policy Polling in March and July that also reveal majority support of legal recognitions for same-sex couples.
“Over the past year, Equality North Carolina has had thousands of conversations with citizens from across the state of every age, race and background who oppose this discriminatory legislation and the harm it would cause to LGBT North Carolinans, our economy and our state’s reputation,” said Alex Miller, interim executive director at Equality NC. “These polls reflect these findings and track with national data that suggests the appetite for constitutional bans of same-sex marriage is waning. When our legislators push this anti-gay marriage amendment, they do so without the approval of the majority of the citizens of our state. ”
State Capital Police try to intimidate peaceful LGBTQ protestors at anti-LGBTQ rally
At the large anti-gay rally in Raleigh, NC yesterday, the capital police attempted to intimidate peaceful protestors who held a simple sign saying “Equal Rites for All.”
They eventually backed off when a local news reporter and camera crew made the scene.
At the end of the video you get an earful of some of the misstatements made at the rally – namely that “all forms of marriage in Scandinavia” have “disappeared” because of gays.
Welcome to hate, kids.