150 Anti-Gay Bigots Protest as Lesbian Couple Attempts to Get Marriage License in NC

[theHandpuppet]

Click on the photo of the anti-gay crowd and check out the caption that comes up.

Towleroad
07/24/2014
150 Anti-Gay Bigots Protest as Lesbian Couple Attempts to Get Marriage License in NC: VIDEO

A same-sex couple has been denied a marriage license in Marion County, North Carolina, reports Campaign For Southern Equality.

Same-sex marriage is illegal in North Carolina.

The action was part of the WE DO campaign where same-sex couples have tried to get a marriage license across the state.

Although an estimated 150 anti-gay protesters turned out at the McDowell County Register of Deeds’ Office, the couple - Keisha and Dericka - was surrounded by friends and supporters and received a blessing from Rev. Christy Corna, who will officiate their wedding ceremony on September 6th....

MORE at http://www.towleroad.com/2014/07/lesbian-couple-denied-marriage-license-in-north-carolina-video.html

[uppityperson]

1. Bigots. Congratulations to those getting married.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Well, they still can't get married.

They were refused an application.

[uppityperson]

3. I didnn't read far enough, sorry and argh

[justhanginon]

4. At the link it says they will be getting married later in

Washington D.C.
I wish them both well and much happiness.

[theHandpuppet]

5. My wife and I will be going to Maryland this fall to be married

24 years together. But like the couple in NC, once we return home our marriage will not be recognized in the state where we live.

[justhanginon]

6. I am sorry your upcoming marriage won't be recognized

as yet in NC but hopefully that will change in the near future.
I wish you and your wife to be much happiness. After 24 years together I would assume you have a head start on the happiness thing.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Yep, 24 years tired of marking "other" on forms

That may seem like a little thing, but to me it's not. Every time I go to a doctor, fill out an insurance form or one of the thousands of forms folks have to fill out over the course of their everyday lives, there it is. There's always a section that asks you for your marital status -- single, married, widowed, divorced and OTHER (explain). 24 years of checking "other" and having to write out an explanation of the relationship I have with my lovely wife of nearly a quarter century, then watching the receptionists snicker or make joking comments amongst themselves, none too softly. My wife doesn't deserve that kind of disrespect. It's just a minor thing but one among the litany of dehumanizing things you have to put up with, day after day.

We live in WV, which I doubt will recognize gay marriage before NC. On the other hand, the way NC politics have been gong of late, who knows?