A couple major events happened in the LGBT community this week. The first we already covered. President Obama came out publicly in favor of gay marriage. Which as I worte was a BFD. On the absolute flip side of this coin was the tremendous hatred that the state of North Caroline showed on Tuesday by passing a same sex marriage ban. Of course same sex marriage was already illegal but thats beside the point, when you hate so much why not just add a little more?
(CNN) -- North Carolina voters have passed a
constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, CNN projects,
putting a ban that already existed in state law into the state's
charter.
With more than 1.5
million votes counted from Tuesday's referendum, supporters of the ban
led opponents by a margin of 61% to 39%, according to figures from the
State Board of Elections. Its backers prepared to celebrate by serving
wedding cake to their supporters in a Raleigh ballroom.
Tami Fitzgerald, the head
of Vote for Marriage NC, said she had been confident that "the people
of North Carolina would rise up and vote to keep the opposition from
redefining traditional marriage.
"We are not anti-gay, we
are pro-marriage," she said. "And the point -- the whole point -- is
simply that you don't rewrite the nature of God's design for marriage
based on the demands of a group of adults."
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