The vote in North Carolina to preserve the natural definition of marriage took place a mere ten years ago, in 2012. When the people of North Carolina passed Amendment 1, Thom Tillis, a Republican who later would become one of the Tar Heel state’s US Senators, was serving as the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives. (The North Carolina legislative building is pictured at the top of this article.) Tillis was a member of the NC House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015 and was Speaker of the NC House from 2011 to 2015. According to Wikipedia, “In 2014, Tillis announced that he would not seek reelection to the state House, instead running for U.S. Senate against first-term Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.” He “defeated Hagan by about 45,000 votes and a margin of 1.6%.”
Six years later, when Tillis ran for reelection in 2020, his Democrat opponent was Cal Cunningham, a former North Carolina senator.
Cunningham led Tillis in the polls for most of the year. In October 2020, Cunningham acknowledged having an extramarital affair and his lead in the polls was reduced to less than two points before election day. Tillis received 48.7% of the vote to Cunningham’s 46.9%.
Betrayal!
In light of this history, it is unconscionable that Senator Tillis is working with Democrats in the US Senate to enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law.
Action Point
Please contact Senator Tillis and the other eleven Republican senators who have voted to advance the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act. (Contact information is readily available from this page). Encourage them to reconsider, or at least to work to include in the legislation the amendment offered by Senator Mike Lee of Utah that would preserve religious liberty. The current wording is inadequate to do this; it is, in the words of Senator Lee, “severely anemic.”
According to this article at The Federalist,
For the legislation to fail, only three of those 12 GOP senators who voted last week to advance the RFMA have to change their minds before a final vote on the bill, which is expected as soon as the weeks after Thanksgiving. [Another vote may actually take place on Monday, November 28.]
If these Republican senators value faith, freedom, and the First Amendment like they say they do, each one who voted to advance this bill should apologize and rescind support for legislation that will unleash tyranny on faithful Americans.
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