Those who live in the intelligent parts of North Carolina voted overwhelmingly against Amendment One, but unfortunately, there just aren’t enough intelligent parts of North Carolina. The AP has called it, stating that Amendment One, which bans all same-gender marriages and domestic partnerships, has passed.
Enjoy your day, Religious Right. The other states coming up aren’t going to go so well for you.
Well on the plus-side, when unmarried domestic violence victims are barred from getting help and POA’s are thrown out left and right, it will show the bigots as the cowards and liars they are.
When do WE get to vote on their marriages?
Nope, Rainbow. Tami Fitzgerald, head of the anti marriage equality group here in NC, said JUST TONIGHT in a live radio interview that ALL that this amendment does is bar same-sex couples from having legal recognition.
She said in an op-ed in the local newspaper a couple of weeks ago that the reports of heterosexual domestic violence charges being thrown out in other states with a similar statute were just not true (ahem!)…and she’s a freakin’ attorney!
I predict that the bigots are going to be witnessing A LOT more same-sex public displays of affection state-wide. This vote is certainly turning me into a “militant gay activist”, what the religious wrong fears most…
You really believe a word that comes out of those bigots’ mouths Philip?
This is why DOMA needs to end yesterday.
Uhh, no, I don’t, Rainbow…I guess my snarkiness just didn’t come across very well in my last post :-)
An ignorant, religious, uneducated group has been allowed to vote away the civil rights of another group. When is this issue going to be brought to the forefront of the battle? Regardless of the groups involved, is this not the main question…can one group vote away the rights of others? Seems nobody discusses this at all.
“can one group vote away the rights of others? Seems nobody discusses this at all.”
It’s happened in 30 states and nobody has brought a legal challenge to the practice. It appears to be perfectly legal. Maybe we should start using it against the bigots and see how they like it.
Don’t forget the still-ongoing legal challenge to California’s Prop. 8. Other than that, it seems the closest we’ve come to a legal challenge against anything similar to these marriage amendments was the overturning of Colorado’s Amendment 2 by the SCOTUS in 1996 (Romer v. Evans). Amendment 2 was even more draconian and sweeping in scope against gay people than NC’s amendment (as far as I know).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans