NC4Marriage Rally Counter Protest

Thanks to Sick, aka James for sharing these images and attending this event.

What is Marriage

Marriage is a social, spiritual, or legal union of individuals. 

Since Marriage is also a Social union, then Marriage should be for all.

Since NC will be in it's own battle for Marriage this Year, its time to Move Marriage for a Religious institution to a Social Institution, where Marriage is open to all.

However the Religious Right will not see it this way. That is there right, however I say this, if they still claim that they are defending traditional marriage, yet they aren't doing anything to lower the divorce rate, to stop those who get marry as a publicity stunt. So in fact all they want is to teach hate and intolerance.

The NC4Marriage wants to write hate and intolerance and discrimination into our state Constitution, so activist Judges can't over rule the state law on marriage. They are afraid of those Citizens of NC who have gotten marriage in other states where they can legally get marriage coming back to NC and try to force a judge to recognize their union.

While we know no matter what we will said, they will counter that with a lie or some claim that they need to protect the children.

I say this If we can not marry then they should not be allow to divorce at all, no matter what. Lets force them to take those vows to heart, or in this case to the death. The only way to end your marriage it to die...

From the Bigot Tami Fitzgerald,

I am writing to invite you to participate in one of the greatest opportunities but also one of the greatest challenges confronting families and churches in North Carolina. What is at stake? Your freedom to talk about and encourage the type of family life that God designed. Your freedom to teach your children the Biblical meaning of marriage.

Ok that would mean that men are the head of the house, that he can sell his daughter into slavery if he wishes. But we all know that those who use the bible to preach their hatred only choose bits and pieces of the bible. Also its a shame that they have their children to help win their bigotry. They claim what they are doing is in the name of God, and for the children, but in truth its for their own pretty selves

The use of Leviticus to judge and condemn anyone today is ludicrous and absurd in the light of the total content of the book. To call the content of the Book of Leviticus the "word of God" and try to enforce any part of it today is without support in the teachings of Jesus and in the letters of Paul.

Jesus in Mark 7:18-23 chided his disciples for their lack of spiritual understanding. Jesus and his disciples had been condemned by the religious leaders because they did not wash and eat according to the Law. Jesus said, "Are you too so uncomprehending? Don't you see that whatever goes into your mouth from the outside cannot defile you; because it does not go into your heart, but into your stomach, and is eliminated? (Thus Jesus declared all foods clean."). And Jesus added, "That which proceeds from within you, out of your heart, defiles you. Evil thoughts, abusive sex acts, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting, wickedness, deceit, not caring, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness: all of these evil things proceed from within and defile you."

Paul also rejected the absolute commands of Leviticus in Colossians 2:8-23, where he said, "If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 'Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!' (which all refer to things destined to perish with the using) in accordance with human commandments and teachings? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against human indulgence." (2:20-23). Paul declared in 2:14 that Jesus has "canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us; and Jesus has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."

If Paul had intended to condemn homosexuals as the worst of all sinners, he certainly had the language skills to do a clearer job of it than emerges from Romans 1:26-27. The fact is that Paul nowhere condemned or mentioned romantic love and sexual relations between people of the same sex who love each other. Paul never commented on sexual orientation. As in the rest of the Bible, Paul nowhere even hinted that Lesbians and Gay men can or should change their sexual orientation.

So let show these bigots by starting to protest out in front of theirs churches, boycott all their bake sales, dinner drives and yard sales.

Below is a short of those who we need to start protesting:

NC4Marriage Endorsers
Statewide and Policy Organizations:

• Christian Action League
• The Civitas Institute
• The North Carolina Association of Christian Schools
• The North Carolina Family Policy Council
• Return America

National Organizations:

• Concerned Women for America
• Family Research Council
• Family Research Council Action

Denominational Leaders:

• The Board of Directors of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
• The Council on Christian Life and Public Affairs of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte

Seminaries:

• Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Danny Aiken, President
• Southern Evangelical Seminary, Dr. Alex McFarland, President
• Daniel R. Heimbach, Professor of Christian Ethics,Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Individual Churches:

• Calvary Baptist Church—Winston-Salem, Pastor Steve Hardy, Missions Pastor
• Faith Free Will Baptist Church--Goldsboro, Dr. Dann Patrick, Senior Pastor
• First Baptist Church—Rocky Mount. Pastor Bill Grisham, Senior Pastor
• Lakeview Baptist Church--Hickory, Ben Rowe, Senior Pastor
• Solid Rock Ministry International—Raleigh, Bishop L. Foday Farrar, Senior Pastor

NC is Now in the Marriage Battle

Over at Pams and Matts blogs they have post

I knew it wouldn’t be long. North Carolina’s the only Southern state without an anti-gay, anti-family constitutional amendment on marriage. We’re a sitting duck; a big glaring hole in the religious right’s sea of hate and control… Just as in the image to the right, from the NC4Marriage website (PDF).

Those of us here in the newly Blue state of North Carolina knew all too well that when marriage amendments passed passed in California, Arizona and Florida that the fundies would start poking around to see where they could find fertile ground to stoke the fires of bigotry.

As the last state in the South without a marriage amendment, North Carolina is a prime target for rally the battle cry of anti-gay religious forces and scare a General Assembly full of legislators who don't want to discuss the issue. For five years the Dems have killed the bill in committee. If it were to make it to a floor vote it would pass because even many of the Dems haven't the spine to publicly oppose the amendment -- they were happy to see it die without debate. If the civil right of Tar Heel same-sex couples to marry were on the ballot it would likely pass.

North Carolina is the only state in the southern United States that has not protected marriage in its State Constitution, thus making us a target for same-sex "marriage." Without a provision in our State Constitution defining marriage as the union between only a man and a woman, any court in our State could redefine marriage by legalizing the union of same-sex couples.

We must protect marriage by convincing our legislators to pass a Marriage Protection Amendment bill that will allow the people of North Carolina to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of only a man and a woman. But we need your help!

I have post an protest event on face book, It as a typo but for some reason I can change it, One of there network churches is have a huge event on 15 of this month, Yes I know its short notice but let show them that we will fight this in our own state as well. So visit and pass this event alone to everyone you know.Lets make this the first Protest against NC4Marriage http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?eid=49706839646

On Sunday February 15, the largest Marriage Renewal in the history of Eastern North Carolina will take place in Rocky Mount at Englewood Baptist Church. The congregation, relatives and friends will witness as 193 couples, representing a combined total of 4,407 years of marriage, renew their wedding vows.

Let show them that we entitle to have the same rights as every other American has.

Lets not forget to add this to our list of things to do

NC4Marriage plans to bus in thousands for that event on March 3. These folks are organized, well-funded and now that the national anti-gay organizations have time on their hands (since the Batphone to the White House has been disconnected), they will no doubt be able to outspend and outgun pro-LGBT forces here. It will be interesting to see what happens, since I know many people here organized and donated to help fight amendments in other states. Will it be left to Tar Heels to fight this one alone since we're not one of the Big Blue states? My hope is that I don't have to answer this question if we can get our Dems in the GA to kill this bill again.

DOMA Protest

DOMA Protest

Marriage should be every American's Right!

Event Info

Host:	Angie and Nykole
Type:	Causes - Protest
Network:	Global

Time and Place

Date:	Saturday, January 10, 2009
Time:	1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:	The grass in front of Chili's
Street:	Corner of Evans and Greenville Blvd
City/Town:	Greenville, NC
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Contact Info

Phone:	2527466338
Email:	girlmarine21@aol.com

Description

DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), is unconstitutional and states that marriage is only between one woman and one man. That clearly leaves the GLBT community on the sidelines. President-elect Obama addressed equality in a letter on his website.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/alexokrent/gGggJS

We are organizing a peaceful Protest inconjunction with the National Protest, just like we did for Prop 8. We didn't have the turn out we would have hoped for in November, but now is the time to stand up for equality in this nation.

FaceBook Event

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Hosted by:	Turn Your Back on Rick Warren at the Inauguration
Type:	Causes - Protest
Where:	United States Capitol Building
When:	Tuesday, January 20 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

NC DOMA Protest/Call to Action for Obama Administration

Host:	NC against H8
Type:	Causes - Protest
Network:	Global

Time and Place

Date:	Saturday, January 10, 2009
Time:	1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:	NC State Capital Building
City/Town:	Raleigh, NC

Contact Info

Email:

NCAgainstH8@gmail.com

LGBT North Carolinians and our straight allies - it is time to come out again and demand our equal civil rights!

Now we're reminding the Obama administration that we want our share of the Hope and Change promised to all of us.

If we want change we have to show up and demand it. No one will give it to us. If we didn't realize that before we certainly should now.

This protest is part of Join the Impact's national day of protest against DOMA. We made a huge impact on November 15th. We can do it again!

On September 21st, 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into federal law. DOMA, wrote discrimination into federal law with two strict regulations:

No state (or other political subdivision within the United States) need treat a relationship between persons of the same sex as a marriage, even if the relationship is considered a marriage in another state.

The Federal Government may not treat same-sex relationships as marriages for any purpose, even if concluded or recognized by one of the states.
To drive the point even further, 37 states slowly but surely adopted DOMA as a state-wide regulation further amending state Constitutions. This apphauling law tells the American people that it is OK to discriminate. That it is OK to recognize the LGBTQ community as less than equal.

This same law, that the California Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional set the precendence for Proposition 8 and other discriminatory laws throughout the country. This same law has nullified many rights that come with Domestic Partnerships. This law has nullified the heterosexual rights that come with Common Law Marriage. This law blurred the lines of seperation of church and state even further. And this law, is one of many that President Elect Barack Obama has PROMISED to repeal in his "Open Letter to the LGBTQ Community."