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Ellen tweets Getting married was one of the greatest things I have ever done. I hope everyone in North Carolina gets the same opportunity someday. Neil Patrick Harris writes North Carolina passed Amendment One. Unbelievable. Dax Shepard says This ugly amendment has no place in your Beautiful state. It's incongruous. Fix it young people. Tori Spelling writes Sad to hear that Amendment 1 passed. Love is love! Period the end. Russell Simmons says I am a proud supporter of gay marriage,.
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North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, becoming the latest US state to effectively slam the door shut on same-sex marriages.
With most of the precincts reporting on Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 61 percent of the vote to 39 percent against. North Carolina is the 30th state to adopt such a ban on gay marriage.
Tami Fitzgerald, who heads the pro-amendment group Vote FOR Marriage NC, said she believes the initiative awoke a silent majority of more active voters in the future.
'I think it sends a message to the rest of the country that marriage is between one man and one woman,' Fitzgerald said at a celebration Tuesday night. 'The whole point is simply that you don't rewrite the nature of God's design based on the demands of a group of adults.'
In the final days before the vote, members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet expressed support for gay marriage and former President Bill Clinton recorded phone messages urging voters to oppose the amendment.
Supporters of the amendment responded with marches, television ads and speeches.
North Carolina law already bans gay marriage, but an amendment effectively seals the door on same-sex marriages.
The amendment also goes beyond state law by voiding other types of domest
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Republicans and African Americans in North Carolina were united in supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage. The North Carolina is a key swing state in the 2012 presidential election.
North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and civil unions, dealing a blow to efforts across the United States to expand gay marriage rights.
The amendment, which says marriage between a man and a woman is the only legally recognized domestic union in the state, passed by a wide margin. With 95 of 100 counties' results reported, about 61 percent of votes backed the amendment.
North Carolina law already blocks gay and lesbian couples from marrying, but the state now joins the rest of the Southeast states in adding the prohibition to its constitution.
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Many voters simply viewed the amendment as a vote on same-sex marriage despite efforts by the measure's opponents to broaden the discussion, said Tom Jensen of the Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling firm.
'Anytime in North Carolina you have a majority of Republicans and African Americans on the same side of an issue, that's a very potent combination,' Jensen said.
Twenty-eight other state have voter-approved constitutional bans on same-sex marriages, according to the National Conference of State Legislatur
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North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, CNN projects, putting a ban that already existed in state law into the state's charter.
With more than 1.5 million votes counted from Tuesday's referendum, supporters of the ban led opponents by a margin of 61% to 39%, according to figures from the State Board of Elections. Its backers prepared to celebrate by serving wedding cake to their supporters in a Raleigh ballroom.
Tami Fitzgerald, the head of Vote for Marriage NC, said she had been confident that 'the people of North Carolina would rise up and vote to keep the opposition from redefining traditional marriage.
'We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage,' she said. 'And the point -- the whole point -- is simply that you don't rewrite the nature of God's design for marriage based on the demands of a group of adults.'
Meanwhile, a spokesman for one of the groups opposing the amendment told CNN, 'The numbers are not looking the way we hope they would look.'
'We have been down in the polls, and this certainly is not coming as a surprise,' said Paul Guequierre, of the Coalition to Protect North Carolina Families. 'But it is certainly not what we had hoped for.'
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