NCCJ Board of Directors adopts position statement against Amendment One

Resources, Defeat Amendment One

COMMENTARY

• Press release: 200+ Triad Clergy Stand Against Amendment One
  
  Shirley Frye (left), NCCJ Board member,
  Citation Award winner and community advocate on why she's voting against Amendment One
  
  Jim Morgan (right), 2010 Citation Award winner and High Point attorney, on why he's voting against Amendment One
  
  
  
• Dennis Quaintance, 2011 Citation Award winner and CEO of Quaintance-Weaver, on why
  he's voting against Amendment One
  
  
• New York Times editorial: "Bigotry on the ballot"
  
  
• Unexpected allies against same-sex marriage ban (Washington Post)
  
  
• One-page summary of leading conservatives— including a Tea Party activist,
  Libertarians, and a former NC Supreme Court Justice — who oppose Amendment One.
  
  
• 10 Factual Reasons to Vote Against Amendment One
  
  
• People of faith, including Julie Peeples, Senior Pastor of Congregational
  United Church of Christ in Greensboro, speaking out against Amendment One:
  
  
  
• Catherine Bessant, Global Technology and Operations Executive at Bank of America,
  on what Amendment One means to economic growth in North Carolina:
  

• News & Observer on why amendment could damage women's protection from domestic violence
  
  
• Video: UNC-Charlotte Professor Ken Godwin on what's at stake if Amendment One passes:
  
  
• Editorial, Charlotte Observer:
  "It's a shame this unwise and unnecessary amendment is even on the ballot. It wrongly writes discrimination into the state's constitution - and it jeopardizes protections for straights as well as gays. Voters should reject this legislation."
  
  
• Article: "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage"
  
  
• Rabbi Fred Guttman on MLK and anti-LGBT amendments
  
  
• Open letter from Rev. William Barber, head of NC NAACP, on same-sex marriage
  
  
• Article: "Conservatives, Vote Against the NC Marriage Amendment"