Tag search result
Tip: Clicking on tags in this page allows you to drill further with combined tag search. For example, if you are currently viewing the tag search result page for "health care", clicking on "Kay Hagan" will bring you to a list of contents that are tagged with both "health care" and "Kay Hagan."
Anti-gay marriage rally draws 1,000
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-03-03 14:54An anti-gay marriage rally drew more than 1,000 people.
The attendees, most of them from Baptist churches across the state, stood on the ice-covered lawn outside the legislative building in Raleigh to demand that state legislators give them a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment to protect marriage, Yonat Shimron reports.
The rally, sponsored by a Winston-Salem group called Return America, featured two nationally acclaimed conservative Christian pundits who described a breakdown of society should gay couples be allowed to marry. They then urged those attending to knock on their legislator's doors and demand action.
"Let them feel the heat until they see the light," said David Barton, founder of WallBuilders, a ministry devoted to educating Americans about the country's moral and religious foundation.
The rally was a follow-up to a press conference last week in which Republican legislators re-introduced a bill that would allow North Carolina to hold a referendum on marriage. The bill has been sidetracked to a committee.
North Carolina does not allow same-sex marriage but advocates of a constitutional amendment say they want extra protections should a judge decide the current law is unconstitutional.
