xPost from LGBT: North Carolina Election Official Quits rather than put antigay measure on Ballot
A North Carolina supervisor of elections has quit her job rather than put a same-sex marriage ban on the ballot there.
Sherre Toler had been Director of Elections in Harnett County for 11 years before she submitted her resignation on January 3, saying she could no longer act objectively, as the law required her.
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,'" she noted in her resignation letter, as posted on Pam's House Blend. "I simply could not continue in the position of Director of Elections and remain silent on this important issue."
Toler cites the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which dealt with the legality of a marriage between a mixed-race couple as part of what gives her such a principled view, having been in a relationship with a man of another race herself. (Read more about the case here.)
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/11/North_Carolina_Election_Official_Refuses_to_Put_Marriage_Up_for_Vote/
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