Advocates focused on anti-LGBT amendment


Statewide Equality North Carolina Conference begins with address aimed at anti-LGBT amendment

by Matt Comer | Editor | editor@goqnotes.com | November 12, 2011

http://goqnotes.com/13314/advocates-focused-on-anti-lgbt-amendment/

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Over 400 community members from across the state gathered on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro on Saturday morning for a day-long conference on LGBT education, advocacy and organizing.

Statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality North Carolina is hosting the conference today and an evening gala. The event comes as campaigns begin ramping up against an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment that will ban marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships for same sex couples.

The group's leaders wasted no time addressing the amendment, among one of the most important issues on most attendees minds.

"When they picked this fight, they didn't just pick it with us," Miller said. "They picked it with a lot of folks."

civil unions and domestic partnerships for same sex couples[/i]

It will be interesting to see how this one plays out, given that part of the wording.

Most polling shows Americans as supporting unions, with a near even spilt on marriage.

This measure could come down to GOTV.