Religion shapes same-sex marriage debate in North Carolina

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/09/11/f-same-sex-marriage-north-carolina.html

By Sylvia Thomson, CBC News Posted: Sep 12, 2012 5:08 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 12, 2012 4:57 AM ET


At the Charlotte Unity party during the Democratic National Convention Sept 3-6, members of North Carolina's LGBT community toasted Barack Obama, seen here as a cardboard cutout. (Jean-Francois Bisson/CBC )

At a huge party in Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention hundreds of people milled about – cocktails in hand – in themed rooms. A barbershop choir sang, a classical quartet played and loads of delegates and Charlotte residents had their pictures taken with a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama.

One guy grabbed Obama’s cutout crotch. A woman held a rainbow over his head for her photo. And yet another draped an orange feather boa around Obama’s cutout neck.

This was the Charlotte Unity party, throw by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community during the recent Democratic National Convention. The general feeling? Obama is our hero.

“Yes, we love Obama,” said Janice Covington, the first transgendered person to ever be elected as a delegate in the state of North Carolina. “Obama will be re-elected. Obama is the only president ever in the history of the United States that’s ever given us anything we ever wanted.”

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1. Shapes it, as in "we wouldn't even be HAVING this debate were it not for religion."