North Carolina Lawmakers Propose Bill That Would Legally Define Marriage As "One Man, One Woman"

The Miami Herald reports:

Republican leaders in the state House of Representatives held a news conference Tuesday to push for passage of legislation that will put before voters a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The issue is one of several constitutional amendments the legislature will take up when it returns Sept. 12.
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House Speaker Pro Tem Dale Folwell, a Republican from Winston-Salem, said that there has long been support in the General Assembly for such an amendment and that the time has come to let people decide.

"It's time we settled this issue," Folwell said at the news conference in the Legislative Building. "People in favor of this will live or die by how the people of North Carolina feel about it. ... Power needs to be pushed away from this building and back to the people."

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