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To All: Please forward the following EQUALITY RALLY IN RALEIGH information on to all within your organizations, post it on your social media sites, upload it on to your web pages and please include it in your publications. Further we need to inform our families, our neighbors, our co-workers, our fellow church members, our neighborhood associations and our fellow community organizational members to contact all North Carolina State Legislators and let them know that Equality for all people is what matters and that we want them to stop the Senate Bill 106 and the House Bill 777, which are the proposed amendments to the North Carolina Constitution defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. We need to make sure the entire population of North Carolina who truly believes in and is working toward EQUALITY for all people, learns about and has the opportunity to schedule to be in Raleigh for this EQUALITY RALLY event on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The Raleigh GLBT Report supports this RALLY.
From: Angel Chandler [mailto:angel@getequalnc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:11 AM
To: Angel Chandler
Subject: "Rally in Raleigh for Equality!" press release
RALLY IN RALEIGH!
For all who believes in and works for everyone having Equality within North Carolina
NO MORE SILENT CONSENT - GetOUT & GetEQUAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2011
Contacts:
Jonathan Green
President, Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA)
Boone, NC
Phone: 336-404-7147
Email: jsg47235@yahoo.com
Angel Chandler
North Carolina State Organizer, GetEQUAL
Asheville, NC
Phone: 828-337-1292
Email: angel@getequalnc.org
Rally in Raleigh
For Equality
On June 2, 2011 from Noon - 2:00 PM
North Carolina based groups Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) and GetEQUAL NC unite with other groups and individuals to fight SB106 and HB777 (the North Carolina anti-gay super-DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) on June 2, 2011. We will gather at the Halifax Mall at 16 W. Jones Street in Raleigh at Noon.
SB106 and HB777 must be stopped and it is up to LGBT groups, individuals, and allies to do so. The proposed legislation would not only put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 ballot, it would also prevent private businesses and municipalities in NC from offering domestic partnership insurance benefits and make null and void Domestic Partnership Registries in the three cities in NC that offer them (Chapel Hill, Asheville and Carrboro); basically, it would end all relationship recognition outside of heterosexual marriage.
According to Jonathan Green, President of SAGA, "In this time of misunderstanding and struggle it is important that there are those who are beacons of light, truth, and understanding and I am standing as one of those beacons and want you to join me and allow the only sovereign to rule you to be reason so that truth can finally take hold and prevail over those who want us to remain unequal so that we can be recognized for what we are, human beings who want and need to be recognized as equal citizens across our wonderful state!"
Angel Chandler, North Carolina State Organizer for GetEQUAL NC, stated "You've heard the saying 'If you are not outraged you're not paying attention', but outrage is easy, action is hard. We have to be willing to do more than sign a petition or send in an email to our representatives. We have to be willing to take action. On June 2cd we will take a stand to let our North Carolina lawmakers know that we refuse to be even further alienated from and discriminated by our government. We are all equal, and it is time our government started treating us as such."
Our message to NC legislators: we are your neighbors, your doctors, your lawyers, your teachers, your child care providers, your mothers, your fathers, your sons, your daughters, your brothers, your sisters. We are your constituents. We are your fellow human beings. We deserve more and will no longer settle for less than equality.
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'Rally in Raleigh' speakers include:
Rep. Susan Fisher (D-Buncombe)
Rep. Patsy Keever (D-Buncombe)
Chelsea Sayre, GetEQUAL NC
Angel Chandler, GetEqual NC
Jonathan Green, SAGA
* More speakers to be announced *
Rally in Raleigh For Equality!
Thursday, June 2, 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Halifax Mall
16 W. Jones Street
Raleigh, NC
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Unite to fight SB106 and HB777 (the North Carolina anti-gay super-DOMA)! The proposed legislation would not only put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 ballot, it would also prevent private businesses and municipalities in NC from offering domestic partnership insurance benefits and make null and void Domestic Partnership Registries in the three cities in NC that offer them (Chapel Hill, Asheville and Carrboro); basically, it would end all relationship recognition outside of heterosexual marriage.
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Contacts:
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Jonathan Green, SAGA
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Angel Chandler, GetEQUAL NC
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Check out the facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109963092422801#!/event.php?eid=109963092422801
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SB106 Text:"SECTION 1. Article 14 of the North Carolina Constitution is amended by adding the following section:
"Sec. 6. Marriage.
Marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state"
SECTION 2. The amendment of Section 1 shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the State at the statewide general elections on November 6, 2012, which election shall be conducted under the laws then governing elections in the State. Ballots, voting systems, or both may be used in accordance with Chapter 163 of the General Statutes. The question to be used in the voting systems shall be:
"[ ] FOR [ ] AGAINST
Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized within the State"
SECTION 3. If a majority of votes cast on the question are in favor of the amendment set out in Section 1 of this act, the State Board of Elections shall certify the amendment to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall enroll the amendment so certified among the permanent records of that office.
SECTION 4. The amendment set out in Section 1 of this act becomes effective January 1, 2013.
SECTION 5. This act is effective when it becomes law."
More information can be found at www.getequalnc.org/rally-in-raleigh/
and the facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109963092422801
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For more information or media interviews please contact Jonathan Green (Phone: 336-404-7147
Email: jsg47235@yahoo.com) or Angel Chandler (Phone: 828-337-1292 Email: angel@getequalnc.org)
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Angel Chandler
GetEQUAL NC
NO MORE SILENT CONSENT - GetOUT & GetEQUAL
