{"id":222371,"date":"2015-02-25T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?p=222371"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:49:16","slug":"breaking-statement-on-passage-of-sb2-by-north-carolina-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?p=222371","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Statement on Passage of SB2 by North Carolina State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Aaron Sarver, Communications Director, Campaign for Southern Equality, 773.960.2857 (c), aaron@southernequality.org<\/p>\n<p>Statement on Passage of SB2 by North Carolina State Senate<\/p>\n<p>Asheville, N.C. (February 25, 2015) \u2013 \u201cThis discriminatory bill treats gay and lesbian couples as second-class citizens and distorts the true meaning of religious freedom. Once again our legislature has demonstrated a willful disregard for the basic concept of treating all North Carolinians fairly. Like Amendment One, I believe this bill will not stand the test of time because it is rooted in animus,\u201d says Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of the bill can be read at: http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/gascripts\/BillLookUp\/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&amp;BillID=sb2&amp;submitButton=Go<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Based in Asheville, North Carolina, the Campaign for Southern Equality is a non-profit organization that advocates for the full equality of LGBT individuals and families across the South.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"I2UrTpLC4o\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southernequality.org\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; Campaign for Southern Equality\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southernequality.org\/embed\/#?secret=I2UrTpLC4o\" data-secret=\"I2UrTpLC4o\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE Contact: Aaron Sarver, Communications Director, Campaign for Southern Equality, 773.960.2857 (c), aaron@southernequality.org Statement on Passage of SB2 by North Carolina State Senate Asheville, N.C. (February 25, 2015) \u2013 \u201cThis discriminatory bill treats gay and lesbian couples as second-class citizens and distorts the true meaning of religious freedom. Once again our legislature has demonstrated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-latest-news","8":"without-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"carolina","author_link":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinarainbownews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}