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Two magistrates in North Carolina are suing the state, claiming their religious rights were violated when they were told they must serve all citizens seeking marriage licenses. The magistrates claim they have a right not to serve same-gender couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced it will hear four cases on the issue of same-gender marriage equality.
The leaders of North Carolina’s state legislature filed motions with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday asking it to put on hold its hearings in their appeals over state’s anti-LGBT marriage amendment.
Two more county governments in North Carolina will consider resolutions opposing recent federal court decisions striking down the state’s anti-LGBT constitutional amendment on marriage.
Same-gender couples will be able to legally wed in South Carolina starting tomorrow, finally bringing legal marriage equality to the state more than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court set of a chain reaction of legal filings and court hearings.
A federal district judge in South Carolina has struck down that state’s constitutional amendment banning same-gender marriage.
Leaders in Gaston County are scheduled to hear a resolution opposing LGBT marriage equality and the continued defense of North Carolina’s anti-gay marriage amendment at their meeting this Thursday.
One magistrate in North Carolina — who’s also an ordained minister — is using the very same scriptures conservatives have used to blast legal same-gender marriages to instead defend it.
The National Organization for Marriage has spent $100,000 supporting Republican Thom Tillis in the state’s U.S. Senate race.
An anti-LGBT pastor known for his advocacy against LGBT equality and marriage went on the attack against an openly gay judicial candidate at a press conference yesterday hosted by Republican House Majority Leader Paul Stam.
