Email Action: Take Action on Anti-LGBT Attack in Boone: Sign Petition, Attend Forum at ASU on Friday

Equality NC again calls on the legislature to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's already existing hate crime law after a bias-motivated attack on two young women in Boone. The Safer Communities Act would expand current legislation to include hate crimes based on real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

More details are below, but there are two ways you can take action and make a difference.

1) First, if you're in the Boone area this Friday, March 2, please attend a community forum from 6:30-8:30 pm in the Blue Ridge Ballroom of Appalachian State University's Student Union. The two women involved in the assault are confirmed to speak, and Equality NC and The Coalition to Protect All NC Families will also be there.

2) The second action you can take is to help these women in their grassroots efforts to expand current hate crime protections. For more information and to sign their the petition, visit their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/328904423812343/

... and petition:

change.org/petitions/amend-nc-hate-crime-laws.

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Margie J Phelps What a Douchebag..

(photo credit from Towleroad.com)

Wow. just to think what would this hateful, bigot, douchebag do with out her Iphone???

Hey Margie Steve served not only God by sharing his knowledge with us, but also by producing the very item you tweet this hateful message from, YOU BITCH..

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Hate March or the right to assemble

This past Saturday, while eastern NC was preparing for hurricane Irene, in the West they were having a Pride Festival.. Yes while some in NC was holding down the fort, others where a street party, wow..

Charlotte pride is held every year, and every year they are invaded by a bunch of bible carrying citizens.

This year was no different for past gatherings. However this Year the number of religious protesters whom show up to protest the event were larger then before.

They come to preach the word of God, and some just right out hatred for others. To group them all in one category is wrong..

So this year it was the color red everywhere that marked these folks.. They were lead by Michael Brown. Many of his group hurled insults and condemnation at the attendees of the Pride event, while others of his group had peaceful discussion with a few of the attendees.

They invade our events, call us names, while most of us just go on about our business, never giving them any thought, unless we see a very hot Hottie, then a few us will chat with them.. However we very seldom invade theirs; while they show up at almost every event that we have..

The Question is why do we constantly call them bigots and so on.. They are practicing their rights under the very same law as we do. Joe of Joemygod.com named his piece “more on the Charlotte Hate march.”

The other thing I don’t understand about mine/our community is why we get so bent out of shape when they show up to ours, we know that they are going to come to them. Yet, we don’t go to theirs to voice our voices, why?

The only recently fundie event that I can think of that our community members showed up for was this May in Raleigh. When a couple of group got together for a Protect Marriage Rally in Raleigh..

Yes they had their rally, however a few community members did show up.

This group stood very quietly, beside/behind the stage. However they were ask to leave, which they didn’t. Well, not right away anyway.

The fundie don’t like when we show up, they claim it was private event on public property each time.. Yet we don’t force them to leave when they show up at our rallies.

In June our Community had our marriage rally.. Yes; and they showed up..

This shot was taken after we allowed them to stay, the only requested that they couldn’t used the blow horn anymore.. yes they weren’t very happy, since they could preach loudly. They just stood off to the side for 45 minutes..

I have to wonder why are upcoming rally will hold for us..

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Trouble at Charlotte Pride

From JoemyGod.com and CharlotteObserver.com

One of many Christianists who spent the weekend hurling Religious/hate speech at the attendees of Charlotte Pride . Another of God's Gentle People was arrested for violating the city's noise ordinance

Benham was apparently the only one arrested.

His arrest was the latest in a string of run-ins with the law for the Concord-based preacher. But he says he's a victim of a city policy that chips away at his First Amendment rights by limiting how loud protesters can get.

"It's the way the city controls us," Benham said. "It controls the message that we speak. The city can control the content of a message if they can control the volume."

Benham also claims,

In fact, he said, his group is already making plans to protest at the Democratic National Convention next year.

"The city of Charlotte really wants me to shut up before the Democratic National Convention gets here," he said. "We're not worried about that. This is our city, and we have a responsibility to her."

 

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