LPMeck is pleased to announce that we will have Scott Bishop as our guest speaker for this Wednesday’s meeting. Scott along with the Regional Field Director for the Coalition to Protect NC Families will be discussing Amendment One and what we can do here in Charlotte to defeat this amendment. Please join us on January 25th, 2012 at our usual meeting spot in the VIP room at the Fox & Hound Uptown at 7:00PM. Please visit our meetup group for more details.
On Saturday January 21st, the LPMeck Executive Committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution opposing the new NC state constitution amendment proposal. “Wheras the Libertarian Party of Mecklenburg County (LPMeck) is dedicated to limited government that protects the rights and privacy of its citizens, it most vehemently opposes NC State Constitutional Amendment One which would seek to violate this principle and abridge the rights of its citizens to form a union with any person of their choosing and receive the same recognition and benefits as all other citizens.
The idea that governments should define “marriage” or give permission for marriage is inconsistent with the principles of liberty. A person’s union with another is no concern of the state except for the purpose of establishing next of kin. Accordingly, in addition to our opposition to this proposed constitutional amendment, LPMeck calls for the state to leave marriage to religious institutions or private contracts and to repeal or amend all laws making distinctions based on a state of marriage.
It is in this spirit that LPMeck pledges it support for the Coalition to Protect NC Families and its effort to defeat Amendment One.”
For more information about The Coalition to Protect NC Families visit http://www.protectncfamilies.org/
Read the “Potential Legal Impact of the Proposed Domestic Legal Union Amendment to the North Carolina Constitution” report here.
LPMeck is pleased to announce that we will have Scott Bishop as our guest speaker for this Wednesday’s meeting. Scott along with the Regional Field Director for the Coalition to Protect NC Families will be discussing Amendment One and what we can do here in Charlotte to defeat this amendment. Please join us on January 25th, 2012 at our usual meeting spot in the VIP room at the Fox & Hound Uptown at 7:00PM. Please visit our meetup group for more details.
Reposted from Creative Loafing – Charlotte
The old issue of city-county consolidation is making its rounds again since the Charlotte City Council voted to commission a $150,000 study on the matter. At issue are both political consolidation (which would consolidate the area’s government services as well as its governing bodies) and functional consolidation (services only). Mayor Anthony Foxx has indicated a desire to pursue political consolidation, while most of the incumbent at-large city council members proposed functional consolidation during an October debate. Regardless of which they pursue, the question is: what is the possible upside of consolidating?…
Continued here
Come join the ExCom meeting of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina on:
Saturday, January 21st
11:00am
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3514 Capital Boulevard, Raleigh NC
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