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Fifty-four pro- LGBT activists were arrested protesting North Carolina ’s bathroom privacy law on Monday as the North Carolina legislature began its session. Following a rally outside the state capitol, protestors held sit-ins at state legislators’ offices and then stayed in the building rallying past the end of the day’s legislative session. The passage of House Bill 2 and Governor Pat McCrory ’s subsequent signing of it into law has generated fury from LGBT activists and the left. Local news stations and the Associated Press captured some of the protestors’ actions, which included being carried by police out of the state capitol in plastic handcuffs, shouting, and loudly chanting.  The protestors will be   charged   with second-degree trespassing and one will be charged with resisting arrest, according to Acting General Assembly Police Chief Martin Brock.  They will also be cited for violating building rules or the fire code. Some of the protes...

The Obama administration has denounced last week’s approval by the North Carolina legislature of a ballot initiative to define marriage as between one man and one woman. White House spokesman Shin Inouye “The President has long believed that gay and  lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples,” White House spokesman Shin Inouye  said . “That’s why he has called for repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and determined that his administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA in the courts.” The North Carolina legislature, by three-fifths majority votes in both the state Senate and House, approved the ballot measure that says that marriage “between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.” The amendment will go on the primary ballot in May 2012, which may make it more likely that the amendment will succeed because Republicans will be dra...