Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:03:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Fenceberry@aol.com
Subject: Special Alert from Raleigh NC (From last Dec. Did I miss this or what?)

RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA NEWS & OBSERVER, September 14, 1997

State of North Carolina
Davidson County
Before the Honorable Board of Commissioners

     WHEREAS, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners is charged with
protection of the safety, health and welfare of the community, and 
     WHEREAS, there continue to be assaults on those community standards
which have historically and traditionally served to protect the public
safety, health and welfare; and 
     WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners believes that as the elected
representatives of the citizens, it is selected in part to articulate and
protect those community standards; and 
     WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners believes it must not sit silently
and watch those community standards be undermined; and 
     WHEREAS, homosexual rights issues have recently again been the focus of
policy decisions from the federal to state and local levels of government;
and 
     WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners desires to establish a public
policy, which will be forwarded to appropriate elected officials on behalf of
the community; and 
     WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners makes the following findings of
fact: 
     
• That the traditional family structure is in accord with those community
standards; and 
     
• That this traditional lifestyle has been proven to be the primary and best
method for fostering a positive development in children and a support network
for the elderly; and 
     
• That this family structure has provided the best mechanism for maintaining
a lifestyle which leaves citizens independent of their government for
support; and 
     
• That lifestyles advocated by the homosexual community should not be
endorsed by government policy-makers because they are incompatible with the
standards to which this community subscribes; and 
     
• That homosexual lifestyle units are directly contrary to state laws. 
     

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:

1. The Davidson County Board of Commissioners openly and vigorously supports
the current community standards and well-established state statutory laws
regarding homosexual lifestyles; and 
     2. The Board of Commissioners pledges not to fund those activities which
seek to contradict these existing community standards; and 
     3. The Board of Commissioners, as the policy-making political body of
the Davidson County community, seeks the support of other elected officials
in protecting its standards; and 
     4. The Board of Commissioners believes that this policy will serve and
protect the health, safety and welfare of its constituents; and 
     5. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Board of Commissioners believes that the
homosexual lifestyle adversely affects the citizens of Davidson County and
does not adhere to our traditional family values, and 
     6. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners does not
support the concept of single-sex marriages or homosexual-partner benefits
and will notify all elected members of our state government to urge them to
continue to support legislation to ban single-sex marriages and
homosexual-partner benefits and will urge members of our federal government
to continue to support legislation to ban single-sex marriages or homosexual
partner benefits in the United States. 
     7. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that since the traditional lifestyle has
proven to be the primary and best method for fostering a positive development
in children and since homosexuality choice made by adults that conflicts with
the traditional lifestyle, the Board of Commissioners does not support any
legislation or policy that allows the adoption of children by homosexuals. 
     8. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Board of Commissioners strongly condemns
this lifestyle and intends to send this message to policy-makers of this
country. 
     Adopted this the 10th day of December 1996.

Larry W. Potts, Chairman
Davidson County Board of Commissioners 





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