{"id":47254,"date":"2012-05-11T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47254"},"modified":"2012-05-13T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T14:19:04","slug":"framing-north-carolinas-amendment-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/11\/framing-north-carolinas-amendment-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing North Carolina&#8217;s Amendment One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/nc.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47255\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/nc-500x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/nc-500x315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/nc.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of you may have seen a video featuring Reverend William Barber speaking out against North Carolina&#8217;s Amendment One, which banned same-sex marriages (and which was approved by voters on Tuesday). The video is heartfelt and passionate, and is also a great example of the importance of how we frame issues in social movements.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Barber argues that media coverage of the amendment has asked the wrong questions. Whether same-sex couples should be allowed to get married isn&#8217;t the core issue here, he says; what&#8217;s really at stake is whether the majority should get to vote on which rights will be guaranteed to those in the minority, a decision he sees as a dangerous standard in a nation that has used it previously to exclude racial\/ethnic minorities, women, and the poor from the full benefits and protections of citizenship. This reframes the amendment from an issue about same-sex marriages to a broader question about rights, equal protection, and the dangers of codifying inequality into our governing documents:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"314\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ywImcNViPtc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you may have seen a video featuring Reverend William Barber speaking out against North Carolina&#8217;s Amendment One, which banned same-sex marriages (and which was approved by voters on Tuesday). The video is heartfelt and passionate, and is also a great example of the importance of how we frame issues in social movements. Reverend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,2056,23384,272,85,234,54],"class_list":["post-47254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-crimelaw","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-democracy","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47267,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47254\/revisions\/47267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}