North Carola bill looks to ban gay marriage | The Hill

Contents:

• NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SEN. THOM TILLIS VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• NORTH CAROLA BILL LOOKS TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
• NORTH CAROLA BILL SEEKS TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
• HOE SPEAKER: GAY MARRIAGE BAN BILL GOG NOWHERE
• NORTH CAROLA ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL BE LAW AFTER LEGISLATURE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S VETO
• IN NORTH CAROLA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE, 'S BILL CLTON VERS BILLY GRAHAM

NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SEN. THOM TILLIS VOIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE BILL

-- A measure allowg some urt officials to refe to perform gay marriage rponsibili bee of their relig beliefs beme law North Carola on Thursday, wh the state Hoe votg to overri the ernor's veto of the Senate had voted to do the same wh Republin Gov.

The law says urt officials who disclose a "scerely held relig objectn" mt stop performg marriage duti for both gay and heterosexual upl for at least six months. Senate lear Phil Berger, R-Rockgham, troduced the bill shortly after lgs by feral judg last October that overturned North Carola's nstutnal ban on gay marriage approved by voters 2012. Most legislative Democrats aligned themselv wh gay rights groups that said the bill created a new form of discrimatn siar to bias of a generatn ago agast multiracial marriag.

They also said the bill didn't prevent lays for gay upl gettg married if a urt official sudnly disclosed a relig objectn when a uple approached the office unter of the magistrate or a register, particularly smaller unti wh fewer staff. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. Rob Portman (R-Oh), who has a gay son, is -sponsorg the bill.

NORTH CAROLA BILL LOOKS TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE

“I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” Murkowski told CNN. Thom Tillis said Thursday he helped craft a bipartisan promise to protect gay marriage bee people the LGBT muny are “owed some certaty. Republin state lawmakers North Carola are proposg a bill that would ban gay marriage the state, acrdg to a lol CBS affiliate report Tuday.

Hoe bill 780 would void the Supreme Court’s cisn on gay marriage the Tar Heel state. Three Republin lawmakers North Carola filed a bill Tuday that would ban gay marriage ceremoni and prohib the state om regnizg same-sex marriage or civil unns, acrdg to a lol Raleigh “Uphold Historil Marriage Act, ” or HB 780, stat that the 2015 Supreme Court lg on gay marriage “not only exceeds the thory of the Court relative to the State of North Carola… but also exceeds the thory of the Court relative to the cree of Almighty God. Larry Ptman (R-Kston), Michael Speciale (R-Craven), and Carl Ford (R-Rowan) are the primary sponsors of the bill, which also directly c the book of Genis, statg that legalizg gay marriage threatens the biblil ial that “man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall bee one flh.

”HB 780 isn’t the state’s first proposed amendment that would legimize gay marriage. More than 60 percent of voters who st a ballot 2012 voted for Amendment passed, the bill will prohib gay marriage all paci across the state.

NORTH CAROLA BILL SEEKS TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE

North Carola's Rightward TurnA bill excg public officials om performg gay marriag ps a strg of legislative victori for nservativ. In the ndidate bate, Helms dropped his gay bomb.

HOE SPEAKER: GAY MARRIAGE BAN BILL GOG NOWHERE

Herzenberg and Brown were the first two out gay polil activists I had ever met. A newspaper iendly to Helms began llg Herzenberg “Queen of the Hop”; charged that, bee Brown was gay, he was “a class H felon North Carola. ” A few days before the electn, s ma headle read, JIM HUNT IS SISSY, PRISSY, GIRLISH, AND urse other newspapers nounced this c anti-gay smear—th ensurg that was heard by voters om Manteo to Murphy.

In 1990, Helms was reelected aga, part bee he warned voters that his Democratic opponent favored “mandatory gay rights.

NORTH CAROLA ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL BE LAW AFTER LEGISLATURE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S VETO

” (“If we have mandatory gay, n I be gay wh you?

IN NORTH CAROLA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE, 'S BILL CLTON VERS BILLY GRAHAM

”) “ Helms said that homosexualy “is not cent and moral and we are tght biblilly what is—'s an abomatn. "It was th North Carola, durg the era of AIDS, that I first learned of the polil power of anized homophobia—and first saw the bravery of gay-rights activists who stood up to the vilt kd of bullyg.

In 1987, Herzenberg beme the first openly gay elected official the South. Lightng Brown (his legal name) had been the first openly gay ndidate, but never won electn.

Same-sex marriage beme legal North Carola last October when a feral district urt judge stck down a ban on gay marriage that had been add to the state nstutn U.