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North Carolina Votes for Marriage Inequality

North Carolina Votes for Marriage Inequality

By Samuel G. Howard on May 9, 2012

So Amendment One in North Carolina passed via voter referendum, and it passed overwhelmingly. Simply put, Amendment One criminalizes love. Not only does it add a ban on the rights of homosexuals to marry (already illegal in North Carolina) to their state constitution, it bans the existence of civil unions between even straight couples. It passed [...]

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