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The Catholic Dioceses of North Carolina have contributed $100,000 to the effort to put a ban on gay marriage and civil unions in the state constitution. And now the Raleigh Diocese has sent a mailer titled "Why Traditional Marriage Matters" that is prompting a complaint to the N.C. State Board of Elections.

Carol Love, the former executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, a liberal-advocacy group, questions whether the group filed the proper campaign paperwork for the mailer and filed a complaint.  A staffer at the elections board told her the no records reflected the political expenditure. "My complaint is that the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh does not seem to be adhering to all state, and possibly federal, election and lobby laws, including reporting requirements, and request that the Board of Elections investigate this matter," Love wrote. See a copy of the mailer below.

The News & Observer and Charlotte Observer will host a live chat on the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and civil unions with two of the state's religious leaders.

David Hains, a spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte and Robin Tanner, a pastor at Piedmont Unitarian-Universalist Church will answer reader questions and discuss the amendment. Join the debate at 10:30 a.m. by clicking here.

The New York Times editorialized against the constitutional marriage amendment in North Carolina this morning calling it "gratuitous bigotry."

"North Carolina already has a law barring same-sex marriage, but the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature is not satisfied. It devised a measure to enshrine this obvious discrimination in the State Constitution and placed it on the ballot of the state’s May 8 primary election — a test of tolerance versus bigotry that ought to be watched closely nationwide." Read the editorial here.

Rick Santorum's exit from the race essentially gives Mitt Romney the Republican presidential nomination -- or does it?

Newt Gingrich is spending Tuesday campaigning in North Carolina. As today's N&O headline said: "Newt Gingrich says he's not going away."