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(69,520 posts)Amendment One will be on the May 8 primary ballots in North Carolina. If passed, we will have a constitutional amendment stating that no relationships other than marriage between one man and one woman have legal validity in the state. Equal marriage for gay people is already illegal in North Carolina. This amendment would wipe out legal protection for children, domestic violence protections, domestic unions, and any other kind of legal rights for all other couples, straight or gay. A spokesperson for President Obama said that the president is opposed to the constitutional amendment. This little right-winger wrote a column mocking the president for this position and illustrated it with this photo. In her semi-apology she states that she intended it to be mocking of his position on equal marriage. She says that the racism was inadvertent. Riiiiight.