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Why You Shouldn’t Boycott North Carolina

“While winning eight out of hundred counties may not seem like much, it is important to recognize that the Great Eight (Buncombe, Chatham, Dare, Durham, Mecklenburg, Orange, Wake, and Watauga) are also home to what Americans love most about North Carolina. These counties include the cities of Asheville, Pittsboro, Cape Hatteras, Durham, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Boone. These eight counties represent about 28 percent of the state’s population and are centers of education, the arts, business innovation, technology, and tourism. Even in counties where the amendment passed, like Guilford, New Hanover, and Forsyth, their county seats — Greensboro, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem — soundly defeated it. Now, more than ever, the North Carolina LGBT community needs to know from you that the work we’ve done fighting this amendment and creating these wonderful places is acknowledged by our friends from elsewhere.”

-Mark Kleinschmidt, Chapel Hill’s mayor on HuffPost

(Way to go Mark- you said all the things I’ve been trying to say but haven’t fully articulated. Thanks for standing up for what’s best about our state!)

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Follow up to my post yesterday about the Lovings The love story that changed history: Richard and Mildred Loving Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal. But in 1967,the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case ofRichard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and Native American descent. The case changed history - and was captured on film byLIFE photographer Grey Villet, whose black-and-white photographs are now set to go on display atthe International Center of Photography.

Follow up to my post yesterday about the Lovings

The love story that changed history: Richard and Mildred Loving

Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal.

But in 1967,the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case ofRichard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and Native American descent.

The case changed history - and was captured on film byLIFE photographer Grey Villet, whose black-and-white photographs are now set to go on display atthe International Center of Photography.

Filed under Richard and Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage Amendment One Gay Marriage Civil Rights

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The Loving Kind- Nanci Griffith

This song just came up on my Pandora station. So appropriate given that it’s election day in NC, and our state is about to pass a harmful amendment that discriminates our citizens and limits the rights of couples in love. 

Lyrics:

“They were the loving kind
She was black and he was white
In Virginia nineteen fifty-eight
They found love amongst the hate

Well the law said they could not wed
They married anyway
The sheriff put them both in jail
Separated ‘till they made their bail

They changed the heart of a nation
with their wedding vows
From the highest court in the land
Their union would lawfully stand
Simply Mildred and Richard
That’s how they’ll be remembered
They proved that love is truly blind
They were the loving kind.”

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The reason for that disconnect is even with just 24 hours until election day only 46% of voters realize the proposal bans both gay marriage and civil unions. Those informed voters oppose the amendment by a 61-37 margin but there may not be enough time left to get the rest of the electorate up to speed.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/05/whats-the-matter-with-north-carolina.html

This makes me so very sad. And disappointed. North Carolinians, we are better than this :(

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The history of Amendment Ones is scary. thedailywhat: Marketing Campaign of the Day: As if it weren’t enough that North Carolina already doesn’t recognize same-sex unions, the state votes next Tuesday on a ballot measure that reads: “Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized by this State.” This ad campaign, by Winston-Salem agency The Variable, plays on segregation-era discrimination to shock voters into voting down the offensive legislation, called Amendment 1: “On May 8th, make history. Don’t repeat it.” Yes, please. [adsoftheworld]

The history of Amendment Ones is scary.

thedailywhat:

Marketing Campaign of the Day: As if it weren’t enough that North Carolina already doesn’t recognize same-sex unions, the state votes next Tuesday on a ballot measure that reads: “Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized by this State.”

This ad campaign, by Winston-Salem agency The Variable, plays on segregation-era discrimination to shock voters into voting down the offensive legislation, called Amendment 1: “On May 8th, make history. Don’t repeat it.”

Yes, please.

[adsoftheworld]

(Source: thedailywhat)

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