Local elected official joins lawsuit over state marriage license requirements

Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen and 10 other people filed a lawsuit last week that challenges a requirement that marrying couples in North Carolina obtain a state-issued license....

News & Record • Dec 15, 2011

NC: Perdue: I won't vote to ban gay marriage

While the governor said she believes marriage is between one man and one woman, she said the proposed amendment could make it harder to attract jobs to the state. "I'm going to vote against the amendment because I cannot in good conscience look an unemployed man or woman in the eye and tell them that this amendment is more important than finding them a job," she said in a prepared statement....

News & Record • Oct 9, 2011

Battle takes shape over gay marriage

An April poll from the conservative Civitas Institute in Raleigh found that 7 in 10 North Carolina voters supported a constitutional amendment. A February Elon University Poll found that only 35 percent of respondents opposed "any legal recognition for same sex couples," and 29 percent favored civil unions or legal partnerships but not full marriage rights. When asked if they would support or opp...

News & Record • Aug 30, 2011

Intense lobbying underway in Raleigh over gay marriage bill

An Elon University poll in February found that 37 percent of the state's residents support or strongly support a marriage amendment, down from 43 percent in March 2009. A December poll of registered voters by the Civitas Institute, a Raleigh think tank, found that two-thirds supported an amendment....

News & Record • Aug 15, 2011

Gay rights advocates rally downtown

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News & Record • Nov 15, 2008