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UPDATE: Via NC Policy Watch:
Campaign manager Jeremy Kennedy says conservative lawmakers are pushing to write discrimination into the Constitution this year, even as a younger generation has voiced growing support for civil unions and gay marriage.
Kennedy, who appears on News & Views this weekend, says over the next 15 weeks thay will be working to engage college students, faith-based leaders, progressives and others and urge them to vote ‘No’ against the May 8th amendment.
UPDATE 2: Videos from the today’s event:
Rep. Rick Glazier, NC House Minority Whip, spoke eloquently about the harms of the Amendment.
Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, NAACP-NC, AME Zion Church spoke passionately against all forms of discrimination and the cynical “divide and conquer” politics of the legislature’s right-wing majority.
Caitlin Breedlove, Co-Director, Southerners on New Ground, explained how she and her partner were watching the news recently with their young daughter. When a report began to air about the marriage discrimination amendment vote, Breedlove reported, her daughter became confused and worried. Not fully understanding what was going on, the girl then turned to her parents and asked: “Does this mean someone’s going to come and take me away?”
UPDATE (11:30 AM): Just heard from ENC Communications Director Jen Jones; they lost their Internet connection at the NCGA; the event is proceeding so there will be post-event coverage. This is when having your own broadband card matters — avoid someone else’s dicey wireless. Hint – there’s another wish list item for the org that a generous person out there could provide.
Jake Gellar-Goad was at the presser and live Tweeted it.
Here are two new videos from the campaign released today:
Real families speak out against Amendment One.
1,000,000 Conversations to Defeat Amendment One
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A most depressing display of amateurishness, by the sound of it.
One hopes they’re better prepared for the battle at hand. One hopes …
I was proud to be among the attendees at this event in Raleigh today! There were great speakers and inspiring stories and one could not help but come away motivated to get to work to defeat this discriminatory amendment! Most inspiring for me were the words of Representative Glazier, when he shared a facebook post (and I’m paraphrasing…),” How could God allow such injustice and suffering in the world and then I realized he might come down and ask ME the same thing!”
We MUST all be united in our efforts to OPPOSE AMENDMENT ONE and end the injustice! Dr King said in 1963, “When one person stands up, he is often not noticed; but when thousands stand up together they cannot be overlooked”. When North Carolinians stand up together to oppose this amendment it will surely be defeated!!!!!
It would seem that the Video of Real Families are missing some real families.. So I guess this is one video were the lesbians surely wasn’t left out of..