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The Nation.
March 9, 2018
He also opposes same-sex marriage, saying, “There's some documents that you can't rewrite, and truthfully one of them is the Bible.”8. But Jones is ... Jones was once a Democratic state legislator, self-effacing and determined to reform North Carolina's campaign-finance and lobbying laws. Then, rebuffedÃÂ ...
News & Observer
March 8, 2018
McCall said he expects to select a chaplain from the Capitol Commission, a North Carolina-based nonprofit group whose mission is to "reach the Capitol ... And in the Senate, Fairview Baptist Church pastor Bill Ledbetter suggested in a nearly 17-minute sermon that gay marriage and "immorality" was toÃÂ ...
Charlotte Observer
March 8, 2018
That effort to ban gay marriage – which took place in 2012, not 1912 or 1812 – didn't work out too well. ... North Carolina's legislators have repeatedly crafted legislation aimed not at combatting voter fraud but at setting up obstacles to vote for constituencies that generally don't support Republicans.
WRAL Tech Wire
March 2, 2018
In a letter sent to Amazon founder and top executive Jeff Bezos, the activists cite concerns about North Carolina in the wake of the so-called “bathroom bill” or HB2 was passed in 2016. That law was repealed in 2017 but not before the state was hit by business decisions such as loss of NCAA tournamentÃÂ ...
MyAJC
February 23, 2018
Of the 17 ships in its fleet, Princess Cruises has 13 ships registered in Bermuda and began offering same-sex weddings on them after the change in law last year. “Because Princess had not yet formally launched a same-sex wedding program, we had only a few couples with bookings,” Negin Kamali,ÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
February 17, 2018
The warrant states that she was unable to recall where she got married beyond identifying it as an island "somewhere off the coast of Florida" and that she ... "A few at the Department (like you) refusing to do your job and enforce North Carolina laws has caused a huge level of corruption to flourish," CartretÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 14, 2018
In December, it sent a letter to island senators, predicting tourism losses in the wake of same-sex marriage restriction. It cited the case of the transgender bathroom bill, rescinded last year, that cost North Carolina an estimated $3.76 billion in business and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed inÃÂ ...
Metro Weekly
February 7, 2018
A similar situation occurred in North Carolina after lawmakers there passed an anti-transgender “bathroom bill” that also stripped away the authority for localities in the state to pass nondiscrimination legislation. “Despite this deplorable action, the fight for marriage equality in Bermuda will continue until theÃÂ ...
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
February 7, 2018
Today, HRC issued the following statement after Bermuda's Governor John Rankin signed legislation into law repealing marriage equality. ... consequences for the tourism industry if the measure became law, citing economic fallout over anti-LGBTQ measures in the U.S. states of North Carolina and IndianaÃÂ ...
Metro Weekly
February 8, 2018
Despite Miyares' legislative reservations, Moore continued to talk to him, bonding over their neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, where their children attended school, ... Dave Albo, asking him to defeat an anti-transgender “bathroom bill” that was similar to North Carolina's controversial anti-LGBTQ HB 2 law.
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
February 8, 2018
Today, HRC issued the following statement after Bermuda's Governor John Rankin signed legislation into law repealing marriage equality. ... consequences for the tourism industry if the measure became law, citing economic fallout over anti-LGBTQ measures in the U.S. states of North Carolina and IndianaÃÂ ...
Windy City Times
February 8, 2018
Less than a year after Bermuda legally approved same-sex marriages, the governor of the British island territory signed a bill into law on Feb. ... had warned of consequences for the tourism industry if the measure became law, citing economic fallout over anti-LGBTQ measures in the U.S. states of North Carolina and IndianaÃÂ ...
WZZM
February 7, 2018
The least expensive state is North Carolina at $865 per year. One of the main reasons Michigan came out on top is its no-fault insurance law. It is the only state in the country that provides unlimited lifetime medical care for someone catastrophically injured in a car accident. Experts say that also leads toÃÂ ...
WomansDay.com (blog)
February 7, 2018
It is 100 percent indefensible for a woman to remain married to a man who is serving a prison sentence for violently assaulting her,” says Sen. Jackson. North Carolina, like much of the South, is culturally conservative and has a history of bias against regulations that appear to threaten the marital bond.
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
January 31, 2018
During his tenure, Governor Cuomo has made LGBTQ equality a core part of his agenda, from fighting for marriage equality to combating HIV and AIDS ... the first governors to protect state workers by banning taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina in light of the state's anti-LGBTQ laws, HB2 and HB142.
New York Times
January 22, 2018
Many people believe that states have grown wary of provoking a pronounced corporate backlash like the one North Carolina experienced in 2016. ... and that criticize the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage as “a lawless opinion with no basis in American law or history,” have sputtered.
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
December 31, 1999
“From North Carolina to Virginia to Alabama to a wave of historic victories for transgender candidates across the nation this past fall, equality voters are ... from marriage equality and adoption by LGBTQ parents, to laws that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
kfor.com
December 31, 1999
OKLAHOMA CITY - Senate Bill 1250 allows business owners to refuse service based on deeply held religious beliefs. With specific language about homosexuality, many think it is specifically targeting same sex marriages. "Oklahomans should have every expectation that their government will notÃÂ ...
GetReligion (blog)
December 1, 2017
Harris spokesman Andy Yates said don't expect Harris, a former president of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, to run ads emphasizing his faith. As head of the Baptist group, Harris was a high-profile leader in the 2012 campaign to pass a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Focusdailynews
December 1, 2017
The bill, dubbed the “Ending Nonconsensual Online User Graphic Harassment” or ENOUGH Act, is sponsored by Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr. The legislation that would make distributing intimate, sexual ...
News & Observer (blog)
December 1, 2017
Both of North Carolina's U.S. senators – Richard Burr and Thom Tillis – have said Moore should immediately withdraw from the race. As for the ... Michael Speciale (Rep) speaks as the N.C. House debated a sales tax bill during a session at the Legislative Building in Raleigh in August 2014. Speciale ...
Nebraska City News Press
November 30, 2017
For two weeks in mid-November, Caston, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was one of four artists in residence at the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the ... a KHN artist-in-residence in November, wants to continue writing poetry for the rest of her life and has taken a marriage vow to poetry—that will be her ...
Law & Crime
November 30, 2017
Mr. Duncan was also involved in another major transgender case – he served as lead trial and appellate counsel for the North Carolina General Assembly in its defense of HB2, the discriminatory state law passed last year that prohibited transgender individuals from using the bathroom of their choice at ...
Politico
November 29, 2017
Other original cosponsors of the legislation include Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) as well as GOP Reps. Tom Rooney of Florida, Walter Jones of North Carolina, Pat Meehan of Pennsylvania, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania. Rachael Bade ...
KUNM
November 24, 2017
The legislation would clear the way for acequias and land grants to apply directly for ... and Arizona to Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee. ... At least four state lawmakers are married to lobbyists.
Rewire
November 23, 2017
The GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, but it's not .... This should be a slam dunk: If marriage equality is a protected and legal ... The ACLU of North Carolina and transgender individuals who sued the ...
NPR
November 15, 2017
Alaska and North Carolina, for example, set the age at 14. ... Only two state laws specify that a judge cannot approve a marriage solely because ...
Port City Daily
November 6, 2017
Eastern North Carolina fishermen oppose legislation introduced into ... is seen as a status symbol in business arrangments and in marriages, ...
KRWG
November 4, 2017
He is an original cosponsor of the Equality Act, legislation to clarify and ... cited religious objections to same-sex marriage as a justification for his refusal. ... Equality North Carolina, Garden State Equality, and One Colorado.
LGBT Weekly
November 4, 2017
... anti-transgender legislation and opposing marriage equality – along ... including Gillespie's own push for a North Carolina-style legislation ...
Patch.com
November 2, 2017
The case started in 2012, when Phillips refused to bake a wedding cake for ... under the law," said Ian Thompson, legislative representative at the ACLU. ... Equality North Carolina, Garden State Equality, and One Colorado.
AL DIA News
November 2, 2017
If child marriage is the impetus to raise arms and liberate women with our ... Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Nevada, .... This legislation (SB 140/HB 335) would only allow marriage above the ...
The Hill
October 29, 2017
I was a 9-year-old growing up in eastern North Carolina. At that point in my life, I had only met two Republicans, and they were married to each other. ... rate statewide and to position legislative candidates across the state to ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
October 28, 2017
Pack your running shoes and head to Asheville, North Carolina, on Nov. ... districts and state legislative districts were illegally drawn along racial lines. ... that same-sex couples hold a right to marry under the 14th Amendment.
Suwannee Democrat
October 23, 2017
He returned to North Carolina in 1860 and remained there till after the war, ... “January, 1878, Mr. Bryson married Anna M. Conner, daughter of ...
Politico
October 22, 2017
"Bannon expands his target list into North Carolina," by McClatchy's Katie ..... and contributing editor at The Atlantic, on Friday married Lauren Coyle, ... Rosen first met the justice when he was a law clerk on the D.C. circuit.
PBS NewsHour
October 22, 2017
Some of these bills are “religious freedom” laws that proponents say are ... the 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize marriage equality. ... Three states — North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas — have laws that forbid ...
The New Yorker
October 11, 2017
The law was passed last year and immediately blocked by a federal judge, but ... The beliefs that the Mississippi law frames as religious—that marriage is a ... review a well-publicized North Carolina case, now that the Trump ...
Charlotte Observer
October 6, 2017
Period.,” says Chris Brook, North Carolina legal director of the ACLU, and ... “As a matter of law, firing a person because of their marriage to a ...
The State
December 31, 1999
Stanley Vincent Hood and the late Mrs. Glenda Alvenia Winegard Hood of Columbia and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Cicero Holder of Troy, North Carolina. ... Mr. Hood received his juris doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law and is employed with Hood Construction as assistant ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 31, 1999
There are no federal laws prohibiting dogs at restaurants. ... Shagger Jacks, which is a very dog-friendly restaurant in North Carolina, has customers who ... Her recent book, “What Happens to Rover When the Marriage is Over ...
ThinkProgress
December 31, 1999
Given that North Carolina somewhat diluted its anti-transgender law and ... As research on the many votes states held on same-sex marriage ...
Free Times
December 31, 1999
While same-sex marriage is legal in South Carolina, the state's domestic violence law doesn't extend to unmarried same-sex couples, and so ... Lee Bright's North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” to limit the ability of transgender ...
WRAL.com
December 31, 1999
Attorneys for North Carolina's legislative majority argue that redistricting is a ... Strach, who is married to the state's director of elections, said ...
The Independent Weekly
September 6, 2017
Per state law, as an undocumented student in North Carolina, Mateo would ... Mateo's mom even made a comment about getting her married.
Politico
September 6, 2017
The conservative North Carolina Republican said he's “grateful that in ... But Republicans are portraying the unusual legislative marriage asÃÂ ...
Greenville Daily Reflector
September 6, 2017
She and her husband have been married three years and were discussing ... North Carolina has the nation's seventh highest number of ... “Immigration policy must be set through legislation, not executive orders," Tillis said.
TeenVogue.com
September 5, 2017
“I am proud to sign this legislation that puts an end to child marriage in ... Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina,ÃÂ ...
Durham Herald Sun
September 3, 2017
The North Carolina Memorial Hospital on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. ... as a state-owned entity would likely require legislative changes, but whether ... “Everybody who gets engaged don't necessarily need to get married.
NPR
August 29, 2017
Alaska and North Carolina, for example, set the age at 14. ... Only two state laws specify that a judge cannot approve a marriage solely becauseÃÂ ...
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