Police officer Randall Kerrick, who shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell in September 2013, is expected to enter a plea of not guilty today. He’s claiming self-defense.
Gov. McCrory has already expressed opposition to the proposed N.C. Religious Freedom Restoration Act. A senior IBM executive is just making sure McCrory sticks to his guns: Robert Greenberg sent him a letter sharing the tech giant’s point of view in that it “is gravely concerned that this legislation, if enacted, would enable discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation or identity.”
Two local elementary school janitors are finalists for Cintas Corporation’s national Janitor of the Year Award. WFAE has a great story on Pinewood Elementary School’s Barbara Watson and Sharon Elementary School’s Bobby Miller.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports more young people are using e-cigs instead of traditionally cigarettes. “Among high school students, e-cigarette use jumped to 13.4 percent in 2014 from 4.5 percent in 2013 … Cigarette use over the same period fell to 9.2 percent from 12.7 percent, the largest year-over-year decline in more than a decade.”
If you haven’t watched the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, here ya go. It’s already gotten more than 2.6 million hits.
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Ms. Lawson,
I’m curious as to your opinion of the law firms that are refusing to represent opponents to gay marriage in various Supreme Court cases.
In case you need background here is a relevant New York Times article that tells the story, and also recounts some famous attorneys who gladly represented “un-progressive” causes. For example, the 1924 Democratic nominee for President was the losing lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/us/the-c…
So if you believe “customers can pick businesses, but businesses can’t pick customers”, are you going to side with GLBTQ in Indiana, but the lawyers who refuse to take on Obergefell v. Hodges?
Yet another example of why religion must be kept separate from government.