NC community supports gay marriage

[WillParkinson]

NC community supports gay marriage
By The Associated Press
12.04.2008 2:38pm EST

(Carrboro, North Carolina) The Carrboro city council has passed a resolution supporting gay marriage and sent copies of it off to the state and federal government.

The city of about 19,000, not far from Chapel Hill, is considered one of the most liberal in the South - sometimes dubbed The Paris of the Piedmont. Once a sleepy farm community It now is the home to a growing number of artists and musicians.

Alderwoman Jacqui Gist introduced the motion after California voters passed Proposition 8 which amends that state’s constitution to block same-sex marriage. North Carolina law bars gay marriage but GOP attempts to enshrine it in the state constitution have failed.

Gist said her resolution is critical of the more than 1,000 state and federal rights and benefits of marriage that are denied to gay couples

http://www.365gay.com/news/nc-community-supports-gay-marriage/

[Ian David]

1. We're still trying to sell my mom's property in Chocowinity, NC.

Why she would have moved there is beyond me.

[dbackjon]

2. Very cool!

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. That's Wonderful!

It renews my faith that there are people out there who want to do the right thing.

[HillWilliam]

4. Now if we can get that

DOMA law off the books. I keep pestering my rep, who seems like a pretty decent guy.

[Jamastiene]

5. I wish I could afford to move up there.

I love that area of my state.

[bluedawg12]

6. Good for them, symbolic and practical and what did it cost them to do the right thing?

Nada. Integrity is free.