North Carolina’s Proposed Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
“Speaking personally, anyone who knows me, and who votes for the amendment, will be stating pretty clearly that he or she does not think of me as fully a person. That voter will be choosing, right then, explicitly, to inflict a measure of harm on my life. Doing so will be an act of aggression and injury, even if it’s one done in private and without the knowledge of anyone else. It will be an overt request that the state turn its instruments against me. It is really that simple. There’s no way to dress it up otherwise. The amendment itself cannot be compared to institutionalized gay-bashing because it IS institutionalized gay-bashing.”