'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

A North Carolina bill to allow voters a chance to define marriage in their state constitution goes to the state Senate on Tuesday, after passing the state House.
Two Republican leaders in the North Carolina legislature said Tuesday they will push for passage of a marriage referendum, which, if passed by voters in 2012, would make their state the final one in the Southeast to define marriage in the state constitution as the union of a man and a woman.