Showing posts with label Constitutional amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitutional amendment. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Conservatives hope for gay marriage ban in N.C.
Conservatives hope for gay marriage ban in N.C. :: WRAL.comThe economy dominated the fall campaign, but leaders among North Carolina's social conservatives believe the Republican sweep at the Legislature should finally permit a vote on a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast that hasn't approved an amendment restricting marriage to one man and one woman. Democratic leadership in the Legislature have refused to consider GOP-penned bills on the issue for several years, and gay rights organizations have offered strong opposition to what it called imprinting discrimination permanently into state law.
Now with Republicans solidly in the majority in the General Assembly starting this January for the first time in more than a century, chances for a vote in the House and Senate are fairly strong, GOP lawmakers said.
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