2016 Legislative Session Wrap-Up
The interests of North Carolina families were well served on several fronts during the recently adjourned legislative session. As with every “Short Session,” the focus was primarily on making adjustments to the State budget, but some key issues were addressed as well, including: HB2, education priorities, and the rejection of a doubling of lottery advertising. […]
HB2 Resource Guide: North Carolina at Epicenter of National Struggle Over Definition of “Sex”
This article is designed to provide an updated timeline and resource of stories and documents pertaining to HB2. We hope this is helpful to you as you explore the many facets of this complex issue. THIS ARTICLE WAS LAST UPDATED ON JULY 13, 2016. The clash over a bathroom privacy provision in North Carolina’s House […]
Justice Department Files For Preliminary Injunction Against HB2
The U.S. Department of Justice is not waiting for the final outcome of the lawsuit it filed against HB2 in May. Late yesterday, the USDOJ filed a 70-page legal brief in a federal court in North Carolina asking a judge to stop implementation of the portion of HB2 that deals with “single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and […]
A Flagrant Case of Media Bias: A Case Study
For months now, stories about House Bill 2 have dominated The News & Observer in Raleigh. According to an analysis conducted by NC Family staff, the newspaper published 161 stories and nearly 94,000 words during the first 35 days after HB2 was passed into law on March 23, 2016. That’s an average of more than four stories […]
Session Ends, HB2 Remains Intact!
The North Carolina General Assembly has adjourned the 2016 Legislative Session, and the state’s common sense bathroom privacy and safety bill, House Bill 2, remains intact! “Despite unrelenting pressure throughout the session from national and state level LGBT activist groups and others, a vast majority of state legislators remained resolute in defense of HB2,” said […]
ALERT: Encourage Your NC Legislators to Stand Strong on HB2 as Session Winds Down
Next week may be the last week of the 2016 Session as lawmakers work to reach a compromise on the budget bill before July 1, the start of the state fiscal year. We need to make one last push this weekend and early next week to encourage members of the NC Senate and NC House […]
National March for Marriage This Saturday!
Marriage supporters from across the United States are gathering in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, June 25 for the Fourth Annual March for Marriage. This year’s event will be the first such event since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last summer that imposed the redefinition of marriage upon every state in the nation, invalidating the 31 […]
Federal Judge Puts Speech Policy at NC State on Hold
North Carolina State University cannot enforce most of its campus speech permit policy while a legal challenge to the policy makes its way through the courts, according to a judicial order issued Saturday, June 4. Federal District Judge James Dever granted a preliminary injunction that prevents NC State from enforcing a policy that, as described […]
Eleven States Join In Fight Against Obama Bathroom Decree
Officials in 11 states joined together on Wednesday, May 25 to sue the Obama Administration and challenge its radical policy that would force “elementary and secondary schools that receive federal funds” to open bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, and other facilities to individuals of either sex. The states represented in the lawsuit include Texas, Alabama, Georgia, […]
African American Pastors: HB2 Is About Morals, Not Civil Rights
A group of African American pastors and other faith leaders from across North Carolina gathered on the Capitol grounds in Raleigh today to encourage state leaders to stand firm in defense of House Bill 2 and to unequivocally declare that House Bill 2 is about morals, not civil rights. Clarence Henderson, a featured speaker at […]