The Indy‘s primary election endorsements are out today. You’ll read that in the House District 38 Democratic race, we endorsed Lee Sartain. The endorsement includes a comment about one of Sartain’s opponents, Abeni El-Amin, and a television program she hosted that appeared on one of Raleigh’s public cable-access (RTN) channels before it was pulled by […]
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Amendment One: De-gay it to defeat it?
Early voting starts next week. Election day for the May 8 primary elections is just four weeks away. Amendment 1, the anti-gay amendment, must be defeated. To defeat it, must it first be “de-gayed”? I first heard that term when I called Jim Neal a few days ago to talk about how the campaign against […]
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Health care’s problems, and possible solutions, in two films at Full Frame
The world premiere of “The Waiting Room” is Friday, April 13. “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” also screens Friday. While everyone waits for the Supreme Court to declare whether Obamacare is constitutional, a pair of films at the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival reminds us that the U.S. health care system […]
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Equality NC’s Jen Jones and the campaign against Amendment 1
Jen Jones didn’t come looking for a fight when she signed on a year ago as communications director at Equality North Carolina. That’s strange, she admits, because since the day she started, she’s never not been in an all-out battle against Amendment 1, the anti-gay proposition that goes before state voters in the May 8 […]
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Does the Religious Right really believe equality will allow us to marry ice cream?
They gathered last week in Wake Forest, a convocation of conservative Christians and Republican conservativesthe overlap of politics and religious dogma was totalrehearsing their case for Amendment 1, or as they call it, the Marriage Amendment. The setting, appropriately, was the chapel at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Some 500 people attended, representing 2,000 churches, according […]
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Elon Poll: 6 in 10 in NC favor same-sex marriage, unions or partnerships
Once again, it’s all about how you ask the question. The Elon Poll surveyed North Carolina adults — not likely voters, not registered voters, but potential voters nonetheless — about same-sex unions. About 6 in 10 favor some form of legal recognition, though of that group, not all are in favor of calling it marriage. […]
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What’s the big deal about civil unions? Poll answers the question
Public Policy Polling says Amendment One will pass easily — UNLESS voters get it that the amendment would ban not only same-sex marriage in North Carolina but also any other form of legal recognition, i.e., a civil unions statute, for same-sex couples. Right now, the voters don’t get it. And they’re not hearing it, or […]
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(Update: Bill Faison too.) In Dems race for Governor, Walter Dalton & Bob Etheridge are calling for civil unions
[Update, March 29: And … it’s unanimous. Rep. Bill Faison’s spokesperson’s been in touch. Faison, too, is on board for civil unions. “If the [General Assembly] sends Governor Bill Faison legislation on civil unions, he will sign it,” Jeanne Bonds said. [So that’s all three of the Democratic candidates for Governor in favor. Add the […]
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(Update x 3: All five also endorse civil unions.) Five top Dem candidates in N.C. are all anti-Amendment One
[Update No. 3, March 29: Bill Faison’s campaign too — Faison would sign a civil unions law, his spokeswoman said. So we’ll change our headline one last time.] [Update No. 2, later on March 28: Walter Dalton’s campaign got back in touch. Dalton, too, supports civil unions, his spokesman said. So we’ll change the headline […]
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Democratic candidates differ on reasons for opposing Amendment 1
Watch the video statements by Dalton, Etheridge, Faison, Coleman and Mansfield, from the Coalition to Protect North Carolina Families. View civil union and domestic partnership laws across the U.S., from the National Conference of State Legislatures. The five Democrats vying to be the next governor or lieutenant governor are unanimous on one issue: In the […]
