Vote Against Amendment One

I have been very caught up in my own personal stories lately and have not addressed a serious issue here in North Carolina. On Tuesday, May 8th you must VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT ONE. This amendment wants to create a constitutional ban on same sex marriages. What you may not know is that such a law would hurt many domestic partnerships including homosexual and heterosexual couples.

In my community, there are a few loud politicians that are working hard to get this law passed.

Do not support these guys just because they are popular. Do not support these guys because you grew up with them and used to play basketball with them on their parents' carport. Do not support anything that you really don't know anything about.

Amendment 1 will not hurt your heterosexual marriage. If you are straight, married or single, Amendment 1 will pretty much mean nothing to you.

However, if you are in a same sex marriage or an opposite sex domestic partnership, this Amendment could wreak havoc on your finances, health care coverage, court orders and children's well-being. Not to mention, it will further allow others to consider your life and union to be "not a real marriage".

Gay or straight, take a stand against your state and your country making laws about who you can share you life with.

It wasn't so long ago that ethnic minorities were not allowed to marry one another and especially outside their race. It has only been in our recent past that interracial marriages in North and South Carolina were deemed legal. We should not lie down and allow this to continue with another group of people.

ON MAY 8TH VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT ONE.

Uphold families. Uphold love. Uphold freedom.

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