HRC Finally giving a Helping Hand in NC

The North Carolina legislature has given us more time to organize. The Anti-LGBT marriage bills (SB 106/HB 777) that would place a constitutional amendment on the 2012 ballot to ban gay and lesbian marriage will likely now be voted in a special legislative session in September. We need your help this summer to contact your legislators to tell them that they were sent to Raleigh to fix the economy and create jobs, not to advance a divisive social agenda. We need them to hear that putting minority rights up for a vote of the majority is no way to treat LGBT citizens in the state of North Carolina.

HRC has hired six field organizers in North Carolina to carry out this work over the summer. HRC staff is working closely with Equality North Carolina on a targeted, well-planned grassroots campaign that focuses on moving votes in the legislature. Our tactics are focused on engaging constituents to contact their legislators through a postcard campaign, door-to-door canvasses, phone calls and face-to-face meetings in Raleigh and in their districts, as well as getting leaders from the faith and business communities to speak out. These are the strategies that work to change the minds of legislators and we need your voice, and the voices of your friends and family, to make sure your legislators vote against the anti-LGBT marriage bills.

Upcoming
Equality NC will be scheduling volunteer phone-banking nights in Raleigh and other locations to identify opponents of the anti-LGBT constitutional amendment and generate contacts with legislators. We'll post more information in the coming days and weeks, but we'd like to recruit volunteers for this important outreach opportunity now. If you're interested, contact Josh Wynne at josh@equalitync.org or (919) 829-0343 x113, or Jess Osborn at jessica.osborn@hrc.org or (786) 718-8555.