thehats:billiethepoet:chess-ka:stfupenguins:think-progress:Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED
thehats:billiethepoet:chess-ka:stfupenguins:think-progress:Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED yesterday after she and her partner sought a marriage license in North Carolina. Share this if you think it’s outrageous. I’m sharing this because Jamis is a badass.WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHATI’ve seen this a bunch today and I want to make some clarifying points. It is illegal (even before the constitutional ban) for same-sex couples to get married in NC. It is not illegal for same-sex couples to REQUEST a marriage license. They’ll just be denied. That’s what happened to Jamis and her partner, as well as several other people around the state this week. Jamis and a friend (not her partner) then refused to leave the courthouse until Jamis would be allowed to marry her partner. They were arrested for their refusal to leave the building, not for requesting the marriage license itself. This is also most likely a deliberate move to initiate a court case challenging NC’s anti-marriage equality law and amendment. Which I hope picks up speed and costs NC a hell of a lot of money to defend. Jamis is a bad ass, but she wasn’t arrested for seeking a marriage license. She was arrested for a very brave, and most likely entirely deliberate, protest tactic.Reblogging for commentary. In all likelihood, Jamis and her partner went there that day intending not to be married, but to be arrested, publicly and visibly, to attract attention and a precedent case to the cause. -- source link