Marriage Rally against HB77 and SB106

Later this amendment was rename to SB514, The “Anti-LGBT Amendment”

The newest version of the amendment, SB 514, moves the ballot date from November 2012 to May 2012. The new bill also retains problematic language from the older Senate version, defining opposite-sex marriage as the state’s “only domestic legal union,” but adds, ”This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.”

Can you believe it, NOM is coming to Town

Yes, they are coming to town, well they coming to Raleigh, NC on the 10th of August. They will be set up on the south side of Capital Building..

From Ms R Mann of ENC

"There are several individuals and groups organizing NOM counter-protests (links to their pages below). ENC will have a "truth squad" there to speak with media, but otherwise is directing people to the grassroots efforts that others have put together.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134847853203064
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132425433461728
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140147449338024
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144354515578400

By all reports their tour isn't going too well the most they have had is 54, however going by Brian and Maggie their rallies had over hundreds.

I have been told one of the above events creator has a permit to counter protest, so we shouldn't run into any problems there..

So if you are free and able to attend this please do so. We must drown them out, and Show that LGBT's of the Carolinian's are united in this cause. That we will not take their Homophobia setting down. We will no-longer stand on the side lines while they try to walk all over us..

Seminar Works

Info on an up coming event in Raleigh, NC

The LGBT Community Center of Raleigh
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 7:00
Boylan Board Room
401 N. Boylan Avenue Raleigh, NC

Eddie Sartin will be speaking on the strategic plan for the LGBT Community Center of Raleigh, where they are currently in this plan and what the immediate future plans are over the next several months. The LGBT Community Center of Raleigh seeks to b an inclusive organization serving various LGBT organizations in Raleigh, the Triangle and Eastern North Carolina regions. In Addition the Center seeks to unite our community in a single voice to advance the rights of our community. Therefore, he will spend most of the time seeking feedback from those attending.

Please RSVP with Deana @ 919-844-7993

Event of Interest

Event: Equality NC Day of Action!
What: Rally
Host: Equality North Carolina
Start Time: Tuesday, March 24 at 9:00am
End Time: Tuesday, March 24 at 3:00pm
Where: North Carolina Museum of History

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=50397057439&aref=3939638

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."