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In reply to the discussion: My post on a Yahoo! news story "Many blacks shrug off Obama's new view on gays" [View all]yardwork
(61,599 posts)The only way to overturn this new amendment to our constitution is for 4/5 of the state legislature to vote to overturn it, and then for the people of North Carolina to vote to overturn it. I doubt that will happen in my lifetime. Perhaps in 30-50 years that might happen.
The only hope for North Carolina to ever see equal rights for gay people - even the possibility of civil unions, which are now outlawed in our constitution - would be for the U.S. Supreme Court to find a federal right to marriage and force all states to provide equal marriage benefits, an I don't see that happening. Obama stated earlier this week that this issue is up to the states. Many states have constitutional amendments like North Carolina's.
Bigotry against gay people is now written into my state's constitution, and the constitution of many other states.