It reveals that the anti-marriage equality are not simply anti-marriage. They are against any civil recognition of gay couples, commitment, responsibility and equality. The Amendment today would ban any relationship rights whatever to gay couples in the state. It renders spouses strangers at hospitals, it ensures no legal stability for shared homes or shared children. It is in many ways a simple declaration that gay relationships are anathema to the people of North Carolina. That's what drives the anti-marriage equality movement: the removal of gay people from full family life.-Andrew Sullivan
Today is the vote on Amendment One in North Carolina. The polls show us trailing but here is to hoping we pull off a surprise victory. However, in the long-term, we win no matter what, because, as Harvey Milk urged us, the more gay people talk about their lives and the harmful effects of homophobia, the more hearts and minds we change. That has been the case with North Carolina...the people there, for the first time, have had a chance to discuss same-sex relationships and marriage in a public way and that will lead eventually to softening of hearts and anti-gay sentiment. I strongly believe that love triumphs over fear in the end. In the meantime, we will do our best to speed up this movement towards love./Joe
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