In response to North Carolina’s passing of Amendment One, same-sex couples from all over the state have been pouring into marriage license offices demanding licenses, knowing they will fail.
At the Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem, nine gay and lesbian couples tried to get marriage licenses. When she and her partner were denied, Mary Jamis stuck around rather than vacating the area, saying she refused to leave until she was granted her constitutional right to get married.
Jamis and a friend blocked the entrance to the marriage license office and refused to leave half an hour after it closed. They were arrested and then charged with second-degree trespass, then released without bond.
Oy. It will not be like this forever. One day, hopefully soon, we will evolve to a point where people can marry the person they love without risking arrest. We’ll get there.
From North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer. The last time North Carolina amended its constitution on marriage, it was to ban interracial marriage.
Can’t wait for that bill.
Willy always gets it!
Don’t give the knuckle draggers any ideas!!!
We need to repeal the tax-exempt status enjoyed by churches. If you want your religious dogma all up in my Constitution, you should pay for the privilege.
A repost of a classic in honor of the 61% of North Carolinians who should be ashamed of themselves.
So it’s official: North Carolina is officially okay with threesomes (see photo above) so long as God is involved but they’ll now join 29 other states in saying fuck you, marriage equality.
Hey, everyone, no need to check your calendars: it really is 2012, it really is the 21st Century, our country really is divided and there’s still people telling other people that they’re somehow inferior and different and that they should really just deal with it and here’s a Neanderthal law that says so and by the way so does God because he had a bunch of white dudes write it down in the Bible.
Jesus H. fucking Christ and God damn it all.
31 other states did this to their residents.
Jesus H. Christ.
What a nightmare!! …looks like all the ‘missing’ Nazis [from the ex-Third Reich] found a new homeland. *God save the Americans…
