Short political update...

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As usual, I try to avoid political posts wherever possible but there are a few topics that are important enough to me that I want to let my flist know about ways to contribute when they can still help affect a decision.

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NC Amendment

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Hey, Just thought I'd add that North Carolina is voting on a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and it would also ban any other type of "domestic legal union" such as civil unions and domestic partnerships. It's amendment one, and it's up for vote May 8th.

Re: NC Amendment

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NORTH CAROLINA! That was the other state! Thank you! I had it in my mind Nebraska at first and didn't see anything... I see now why I thought Nebraska; I'd apparently only remembered it started with an N.

Re: NC Amendment

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LOL I'm just in Durham and that's fairly liberal so I don't know if it is a good yardstick to judge the feelings of the rest of the state, but the support I see for voting the amendment DOWN is really encouraging. There might be hope that it fails. *fingers crossed*

Re: NC Amendment

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I hope so! I seriously can't believe in this day and age this sort of shit is not only a debate but people are actually putting it up for vote to amend state constitutions... it's so beyond my understanding why it's being taken seriously at all that I can't even comprehend why this is so effing hard to finalize equal rights for everyone. I think the people who say it's the civil rights movement of our time, like how the race and women movements were previously, and I also think that's kind of a good thing because if that were true that also means it's a lot more likely to turn out for the best eventually. So that people look back to now and go "Wow did that seriously happen?"