Not only have we seen a shift in polling in places like North Carolina, we now have an institutional shift that will only, with any luck, advance the argument that civil rights are, well, civil rights and that each minority has a reason to support the others in this respect:
The NAACP Constitution affirmatively states our objective to ensure the "political, education, social and economic equality" of all people. Therefore, the NAACP has opposed and will continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens. We support marriage equality consistent with equal protection under the law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Further, we strongly affirm the religious freedoms of all people as protected by the First Amendment.
Of 64 on the board only two voted against.
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