Lesbian seeking marriage license arrested in NC

[Duncan Grant]

And now a moment of genuine inspiration.


Forsyth County sheriff's deputies arrest Mary Lee Bradford of Winston-Salem and Mary Jamis of Mocksville after they refused to leave at the Forsyth County Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem, N.C., May 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

(AP) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office where several gay and lesbian couples were turned away.

The civil disobedience followed a day after President Barack Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and two days after North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

The protest came amid attempts by a gay rights group, Campaign for Southern Equality, to broaden public support to allow same-sex marriage and more protests are planned in coming days at other county offices in North Carolina that issue marriage licenses

Nine gay and lesbian couples each presented completed forms and identification to a clerk at the local Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem, but were refused because state law recognizes only heterosexual couples.

CBS News.

[JohnnyRingo]

1. I've heard of "pray away the gay"...

but it looks like NC has officially upped the ante to include "smear the queer" and "indict the dike" on their state seal.

Now maybe these good women will learn their lesson and go back to being straight.

I don't want to pick on just the southern states, because this legislation is now happening in every state with a Republican governor, but there's a large concentration of uber-conservatives below the Mason-Dixon Line, and their intolerant bigotry is getting noisier every day an African American Democrat occupies the White House. I believe if McCain had won the election, these people would not have felt a need to "take their country back" and these anti-gay laws would not have seen the light of day.

Change is coming, and just like after the first civil war, joining America in a promising new century is a tough pill to swallow for many conservatives. They'll either get used to it, or get old and die.

[irisblue]

2. bail fund? legal defense fund

i'm in for green in this. anyone know

[William769]

3. It's just heating up.