Vote For Love

Tell the Candidates for Durham County Commissioner to take a stand against Amendment One!

The Petition

Amendment One is a disgrace.
There is no legal, moral, or religious excuse to write discrimination into our constitution. It's not just about Marriage, it's about Equality.
1. The Durham County Commissioners should firmly and formally take a stand against the Amendment. We call on them to finally vote on a resolution condemning it at their meeting Monday.
2. The 14 candidates for County Commission should take a stand FOR Equality, and not just mildy Against the Amendment. To show the leadership Durham craves, they must stand on the side of Love & Equality.
We call on all 14 candidates to distribute Anti-Amendment literature, along with their own, at each polling location on on Tuesday, May 8th; and to direct their supporters to do so as well.
Collectively, the 14 candidates, and their volunteers, are the largest group of poll-workers in Durham on Election Day. Together they can defeat this Amendment.

An Open Letter To The Board of Commissioners

Shame on the Durham County Commission, That's. Not. Leadership.

In stunned shock and horror, I sat while the Durham County Board of Commissioners side-stepped the Amendment 1 issue.  The shock was that they really did duck the issue again.  But the stunned horror was from the utter lack of emotion or compassion they expressed while they did it.
It was a business as usual tone of voice, a matter of fact presentation.  It could have been rehearsed.  The County Attorney said his piece, the Chairman echoed a few words, and in a Kafkaesque fashion he announced to the assembled crowd his pre-determined results:

You can have your public voice on the issue.  But you can only have one half hour.  You can't do it tonight.  You can speak for three minutes per person.  It will be off the record.  We'll do it May 7th, 24 hours before polls open on election day.  There will only be 10 of you.  
We, the commissioners, will never vote on, or even be required to take a position on, the Amendment.

No really.  That's what really happened tonight.

The Chair also announced that the Commissioners would be available for questions from the press after the meeting was over.  That announcement was disingenuous at best . I took this photo nearly three hours later, the meeting still going on.  Row after row of empty seats, all other opponents of the Amendment long since gone.

By 11pm, several more closed sessions later, the meeting was still going strong.   Our campaign, and the press, went home.

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