I got a letter published in my (Raleigh) newspaper [View all]

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/01/2034605/david-conroy-dont-choose-hate.html

Don’t choose hate

Amendment One isn’t about marriage. The fact is, as much as it pains me to say it, there will be tomatoes growing on Mars before we would see an elected judge or elected legislature in North Carolina changing the state law which bans marriage equality. And that is the only protection to marriage that Amendment One offers. If a federal judge or the Congress were to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act this amendment would offer no protection at all.

This amendment will, with 100 percent certainty, eliminate health benefits for some number of people who are currently getting them. It will, at least for some amount of time, put in danger domestic violence laws protecting people who aren't married.

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