Oh so you voted to ban gay marriage in North Carolina?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

[PDJane]

1. The law also bans cohabitation

which will really be helpful to children of unmarried parents and a bunch of other things.

It was a really, really stupid decision by a bunch of really, really ignorant voters.

[uppityperson]

2. How can they ban cohabitation? I mean, what will they do if they fine 2 (or more) people

living together in sin? How is there ANY way to enforce that?

[PDJane]

3. Oh, yes. They can.

Housing rules, for starters. Refusal to grant children of common-law unions any rights. There is always something 'they' can do. I remember a time when a man and a woman who weren't married couldn't rent apartments, buy a house together.....it is quite possible to do something. Mind you, it will manage to disrupt a lot of lives in the process but that's not a concern, it seems to me.

[uppityperson]

4. It took my parents a long time to be ok visiting their cohabitating kids.

Then they wouldn't sleep in the same house because....we might have sex and weren't wed! Eventually they got over it.

I can see not renting/selling to cohabits, having some stupid ways. I keep thinking we can't go back but we do in places. I was amusing myself thinking of neighborhood watches calling 911 to report cohabiting people. Sirens blaring, pulling up, tasers drawn, "down, on the ground you sinners". But it isn't actually very funny at all. sigh

[FBaggins]

5. No it doesn't.

It's certainly more far-reaching than many who voted for it realize, but it doesn't (and couldn't) ban anyone living with anyone else.

What it could do (depending on court rulings) is keep that relationship from being recognized as anything more than cohabitation (two people who happen to live in the same residence without any formal relationship).

[mmonk]

6. It can't really. We have Fair Housing Laws. I'm a REALTOR.

There can be no discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, sex, disability, familial status,

[PDJane]

7. I was merely pointing out that there are ways to remove rights from couples.

Part of that is that couples who are not married can be denied joint insurance coverage, their children can be denied support payments and legal parentage....trust me, there are ways that this can be done.

The law, as it is written bans all but same-sex marriage, and there are interesting ways that this can be applied. Don't tell me it can't happen. It can.

It's a dangerous precedent.

[FBaggins]

8. You said it "bans cohabitation"

It doesn't and can't.

That doesn't mean it's right... and it doesn't mean that the amendment doesn't harm people (including well beyond the LGBT community)... it just means that you got it wrong in that specific regard.

[dsc]

12. the amendment doesn't

but there is a law on the books banning cohabitation. It came up recently when a sheriff fired an employee who was cohabitating and used the law as justification for having done so.

[FBaggins]

13. Came up recently?

NC's cohabitation law was ruled unconstitutional six years ago (and that was the case involved).

[littlewolf]

11. ok some questions ...

joint insurance ... if offered by employer .. this law
can not touch that ... period ...

support payment ... again if you fathered the
child ... you can be made to pay support for that
child ...

legal parentage .. again if your name is on
the birth cert. it is yours ... the law doesn't touch
that ...

there are bad things about this law ...
but these are no the ones to fear ...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. Ugh, that makes me sick.

Especially since I chose to live in this state. Amendment One: wrong on every level imaginable.

[CRK7376]

10. Not all of us in NC voted for this

lousy piece of crap legislation. Even many of us living far outside the major urban areas voted against it. At least I voted against it as did my wife and son #1. Son #2 and daughter still to young to vote....