Way to go North Carolina!
Sadly, as predicted, voters in North Carolina passed Amendment One, the law that bans already-banned same-sex marriage and tacks on a gratuitous "and no civil unions, either." As Joan McCarter explained:
There would be no more legal unions between unmarried people, gay or straight. It could take health care benefits away from families, it could take away domestic violence protections, hospital visitation rights, and all the very basic protections of civil unions.
This victory will be short-lived, of course, as marriage equality will eventually be the law of the whole country. Unfortunately, North Carolina's action here will be seen as a hateful last gasp of gay "Jim Crow" laws. And it will cause untold misery and hardship in the meantime.
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