Cassilhaus: AMENDMENT ONE AND CASSILHAUS' FIRST ACTIVIST IN RESIDENCE

Over the past 4-5 months Ellen and I have been actively involved in trying to defeat the hateful and discriminatory Amendment One on the May 8 NC Ballot. We have been phone banking, had a fund raiser here at Cassilhaus (see below), and have been using lots of creative methods to get the word out. We got a request from the campaign to house out-of- state campaign staff who would be coming in during the final week of the defeat Amendment One effort and the timing worked perfectly between two visiting artists so we offered up our artist apartment. Little did we know that we would get the woman who was heading up the whole effort from the Human Rights Campaign in DC! Karin Quimby , our first Activist in Residence, is the HRC regional field director for the Southern US and a complete delight. Even though she is working 15 hours a day we have been able to get the inside scoop on the campaign and are excited to have her energy here at the house. Another first for Cassilhaus.

Ellen and I were able to catch a quick lunch today with Karin. Love Conquers Hate says it all.

Back in March (slacker blogger) we hosted an anti-Amendment fund raiser here with our friends Wendy and Piper from NOSH restaurant and Jimmy Creech, a reknowned pastor and passionate advocate for gay rights.

We were also fortunate to have Adam Limehouse, the regional field director from Protect All NC Families, on hand to explain the startegy and ground campaign for the effort.

One final bit of fun is our Crows Against the Amendment campaign. One of these photos ran in both the Durham and Chapel Hill News this Sunday and the clipping tells the story.