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voteagainstamendmentone:

Check out the newest video from the WE DO Campaign ( @CSElive )!  Get ready to cry. It’s very moving.

“The WE DO Campaign involves LGBT couples in Southern communities requesting – and being denied – marriage licenses in order to call for full equality under federal law and to resist unjust state laws. Clergy, family and friends stand with them as they take this action.”

Visit their website and consider donating to the cause : http://www.southernequality.org/donate/

cries!

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I went last Friday and I was so anxious.  I’m 28 years old so voting isn’t new to me.  I walked into the rec center, where early voting was taking place,  wearing my black vote against shirt.  A couple of men followed me and handed me their business cards saying that they were running for county commissioner and they wanted me to vote for them.  I wish I had thought to ask them where they stood on amendment one.  I was too nervous to I guess.  When I went in to fill in my ballot, I thought about all of those different city councils and county commissioners that passed “resolutions” in favor of amendment one and I decided to leave that part of the ballot blank.  If I didn’t know who they were,  they weren’t going to get my vote.   When I left, my stomach was in knots.  But I was proud.  I’ve been anxious ever since.  For over a week the anxiety hasn’t been relieved and I know it wont until we get the results.  This is the most important issue that has come up in my state since I’ve been alive.  I will always remember it for the rest of my life and I am proud to say that I voted against amendment one.  You should be too. 

Have you voted yet?  If so, how did you feel? 

voteagainstamendmentone:

It’s the weekend before the final vote. Maybe we should break the format around here and have a little fun. I usually ONLY post things pertaining to Anti Amendment One. How about we have a FREE FOR ALL Vote Against weekend?

Submit pictures, stories, music videos, anything as long as you can …

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Former President Bill Clinton has recorded an audio advertisement opposing North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The ad will be pushed to the phones of hundreds of thousands of North Carolina voters beginning Monday….

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Consequences of #amendment1 @protectNC

voteagainstamendmentone:

Shana Carignan (left) and Megan Parker Carignan with their son Jax. The North Carolina couple fears a proposed constitutional amendment would cost them crucial domestic partner benefits they need to care for their child. (Courtesy Photo)

For Shana Carignan and Megan Parker Carignan, the passage of Amendment 1 in North Carolina would mean much more than a dashed dream of walking down the aisle.

The Greensboro, N.C., couple faces the prospect of losing crucial domestic partner benefits they need to care for Jax, a four-year-old special needs child they adopted, as well as for Mary, a special needs elderly woman they’ve taken care of for about seven years.

Shana said “a lot of things are at stake” if Amendment 1 passes because her custody of Jax could be jeopardized if something should happen to Megan, who legally adopted the child.

“There’s a good chance that I would not be in custody of him,” Shana said. “Even if we were to draw up guardianship papers, they’re saying that there’s risk that this amendment would null and void it and that he would probably go back into the foster care system in Texas.”

Noting Jax has special needs, Shana said she doesn’t believe many other families would be able to care for the child should he be sent back to Texas.

Read more at the source!: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/04/23/its-just-an-act-of-meanness/