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Contents:

• NORTH CAROLA AG: IT’S TIME TO STOP FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE IN COURT
• ATTORNEY GENERAL ROY COOPER WON'T FEND GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• NC ATTORNEY GENERAL WON'T FEND HIS STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• COOPER WOULD VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILLS
• ATTORNEY GENERAL COOPER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS RALLY RALEIGH
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• GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS

NORTH CAROLA AG: IT’S TIME TO STOP FIGHTG GAY MARRIAGE IN COURT

North Carola Attorney General Roy Cooper said on Monday that his office would stop fendg the state’s gay marriage ban urt after an appeals urt stck down a siar ban on same sex marriage Virgia. The 4th Circu Court of Appeals led that Virgia’s ban on gay marriage vlat the Constutn’s equal protectn clse.

The lg self — which don’t take effect jt yet — only appli to Virgia, but the circu cisn sets a strong precent for gay marriage urts North Carola and the multiple other stat vers.

ATTORNEY GENERAL ROY COOPER WON'T FEND GAY MARRIAGE BAN

“[The lg] do predict that our law will be stck down, ” Cooper said, argug that ntug to fend the gay marriage ban urt would be “futile” bee “judg North Carola are bound by the opn.

Var legal challeng to North Carola’s gay marriage ban are pendg urt, and Cooper said that “the state of North Carola will not oppose the s movg forward. — North Carola Attorney General Roy Cooper’s keynote addrs at a fundraiser Saturday night support of gay rights drew qutns om some social nservativ about how well he would fend the state’s ban on same sex marriag that’s currently beg challenged urt. gay marriage ban, slashed rporate tax rat, and gutted the state’s prized.

NC ATTORNEY GENERAL WON'T FEND HIS STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE BAN

They are particularly unhappy wh Cooper for agreeg to speak at next month’s annual fundraiser for the gay-rights anizatn Equaly North Carola. While not a platiff the lawsu, Equaly NC lobbi for expandg rights for gays and lbians.

COOPER WOULD VETO GAY MARRIAGE BILLS

Sgro said Cooper “has long been an advote for equal rights for all people and we appld him for publicly aligng” wh a “fast-growg majory” of state rints who support legal regnn for gay upl. ) leave Feral Court after a hearg on Virgia's ban on gay marriage Norfolk, Va.

"The US Supreme Court uld have at least five appellate cisns to nsir if tak up gay marriage aga s next term, begng Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of North Carola reprents same-sex platiffs two lawsus challengg the North Carola law now pendg before a feral judge Greensboro.

ATTORNEY GENERAL COOPER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

Attorney General and unannounced Democratic ndidate for ernor Roy Cooper said Wednday if he was the ernor he would veto two pendg bills related to gay an terview wh The Associated Prs, Cooper said he oppos legislatn that would allow magistrat and urt clerks to refe to perform civil marriag if they object on relig grounds. " Cooper supports gay marriage.

They are particularly unhappy wh Cooper for agreeg to speak at next month's annual fundraiser for the gay-rights anizatn Equaly North Carola.

GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS RALLY RALEIGH

Sgro said Cooper "has long been an advote for equal rights for all people and we appld him for publicly aligng" wh a "fast-growg majory" of state rints who support legal regnn for gay upl. Circu Court of Appeals Richmond, Va., led that Virgia's nstutnal and statutory provisns barrg gay marriage and nyg regnn of such unns performed other stat vlate the U.

The Virgia gay marriage se is the latt a strg of cisns overturng bans across the untry and is one of several that uld go to the U. Virgia law n't tmp 'fundamental right'In 2006, Virgians voted 57 percent to 43 percent to approve the nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage.

"This urt has affirmed that our platiffs — and all gay and lbian Virgians — no longer have to live as send-class cizens who are harmed and meaned every day. The women were married California and wanted their marriage regnized Virgia, where they are raisg a 16-year-old other same-sex upl, Joanne Harris and Jsi Duff of Stnton and Christy Berghoff and Victoria Kidd of Wchter, filed a siar lawsu Harrisonburg and were allowed to tervene the se before the appeals was not immediately clear if or when Virgia would need to beg issug marriage licens to same-sex latt strg of cisns favorg gay marriageGay marriage proponents have won more than 20 legal cisns around the untry sce the U. "Six North Carola fai and several clergy across the state have filed lawsus to overturn North Carola's gay marriage ban.

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RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Christian nservativ who helped pass a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage North Carola held a monstratn Raleigh Tuday to try to keep the prohibn fend group lled Return Ameri rallied behd the Legislative Buildg.

GAY MARRIED UPLE FLEE RSIA AFTER RECEIVG ATH THREATS

Two gay men whose marriage was registered by Rsian officials have fled the untry after receivg ath threats and havg the electricy and ter reportedly cut off by placloth police who bieged their apartment Mosw. Although homosexualy is not illegal Rsia, gay marriage is.

Valy Milonov, a Rsian MP and the thor of Rsia’s law banng so-lled gay propaganda, said the marriage stamps had no legal validy and likened the uple to “stkg goats” rights groups said homophobic attacks had rocketed Rsia sce Print Vladimir Put approved the ntroversial law outlawg the promotn of a homosexual liftyle to mors 2013. Dozens of gay men were reportedly taed and tortured Chechnya, a maly Mlim republic southern Rsia, last terr mistry announced that the men’s passports would be annulled and that the clerk who stamped them would be dismissed. “Police blocked the ex om the apartment where the uple live, as well as prevented iends and acquatanc om g to support them, ” Rsian LGBT Network, a gay rights group, said.

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