Tomorrow is a monumental day for the state of North Carolina. Tomorrow is also a monumental day for me, and while I could continue to berate my little corner of social media with political facts and statistics about amendment one and the plethora of unintended consequences that it will indefinitely bring to our home state, I’ve decided to take another approach. If you are reading this, I would hope it is because you have taken the time to get to know a little bit about me, the me that is hopelessly self-conscious and quite frequently insecure, but I also hope that you’ve gotten to know the me that has an unwavering faith in humanity, the me that believes in progress and the kindness of human kind.
I want to get married in my home state to the person that I love and not the person that society or the government dictates. I want to get married in front of my friends and family and in front of God. I want to feel equal in the state I was born in, in the state that I grew up in and in the state I’m becoming a man in. The facts about amendment one are out there, the research is readily available, but ultimately I hope everyone goes out to the polls tomorrow to vote with an open mind and an open heart. North Carolina is one of the only southern states that has the numbers to beat this thing, but right now it’s not looking so good. If you haven’t already I urge you to vote and to tell all your friends to vote against amendment one. I believe we can beat amendment one, I believe in North Carolina.
