I posted on this anti-gay Thomasville resolution earlier today. They’ll be voting on the resolution on Monday evening, 7pm, second floor of the Police Building on Guilford Street, Downtown Thomasville.
Via The Lexington Dispatch, here is the text of the resolution (click here to see the NC Advocacy press release on the issue):

WHEREAS twenty states have had the opportunity to amend their state constitutions defining marriage, and on November 7, 2006, seven other states, including the following North Carolina border states, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia will have the opportunity to amend their state constitutions, and

WHEREAS the state of North Carolina is fortunate to have strong marriage laws in place, these laws are not immune from legal challenges, and

WHEREAS given the definition of marriage in North Carolina is statutory, they are open to challenge under North Carolina’s Constitution, and

WHEREAS a constitutional amendment is the only way that the General Assembly and the people of North Carolina can protect our strong marriage laws and assure that the courts do not define the issue for the people; be it therefore

RESOLVED that the undersigned members of the Thomasville City Council ask the North Carolina General Assembly to allow the citizens of our state the same right that Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia and other states have exercised, the opportunity to amend our State Constitution to protect the institution of marriage in the state of North Carolina and define the type of marriage to be recognized as valid in our state.

This resolution – pushing for this resolution – is nothing but a political tactic, once again using the private lives of private LGBT citizens in order to push an anti-gay agenda. The person really behind all this is the Reverend Ron Baity of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC.

Last year the Reverend Baity, members of his church and members of his little religious right, anti-gay advocacy group pushed the Davidson County Board of Commissioners into considering a similar resolution. When they voted it down 4-3, the Reverend Baity and the approximate 200 people he brought with him to the meeting were just absolutely livid.

The Reverend Baity plans on trying to get numerous local governments to pass resolutions such as the one above. They plan on presenting these resolutions to state legislators during an anti-gay rally in Raleigh in March 2007.

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