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A California church is planning to put up a billboard in west Charlotte, offering an apology to homosexuals for North's Carolina's vote in support of Amendment One.
The amendment, passed on May 8, defines marriage between a man and woman as the only union legally recognized in the state.
The billboard will stand off Billy Graham Parkway near Interstate 85. It's paid for by the Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego.
The billboard will read, "Missiongathering Christian Church is sorry for the narrow-minded, judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions of those who DENIED rights and equality TO so many in the Name of God."
Eyewitness News spoke with church leaders via Skype today, who said they first displayed a similar billboard in San Diego in 2008, after the Prop 8 marriage amendment passed in California.
After Amendment One passed in North Carolina, images of their old billboard resurfaced online and went viral.
Alex Roller, one of the church's pastors, said, "As we began receiving emails and phone calls thanking us being encouraged by it from all across the country, even Canada, then we thought what if we put up the billboard again in response to Amendment One, not in San Diego but there in North Carolina."
David Hains with the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte said he disagrees with what the church's billboard represents and says the voters of North Carolina took a clear stance on defining marriage as between a man and woman.
"I'm proud of what the people of North Carolina have done and what they said on May 8," said Hains. "It's disappointing that Christians would call people names, but I have no apologies for what the people of North Carolina said."
The church is now collecting donations in hopes of adding billboards around the city, including uptown Charlotte. Their goal is to keep the billboards up for as long as possible, which means they could be standing when the Democratic National Convention comes to town in September. It's an idea Ralph Belk with the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party supports.
"We were very much against the amendment and felt like it was an attack on civil rights," said Belk. "Anyone who's willing to help us continue that conversation and show that there is support still for civil rights I'm in favor of that."
The church fronted the money for the $3,000 billboard. But will be collecting donations online to keep the billboard up longer. For now, it's scheduled to stay up for three weeks.
Darlene Zenwick uses auto drafts to pay bill and says it is super convenient. The money transfers from your bank account every month to pay things like cellphone bills and mortgages.
But increasingly, Zenwick and others have discovered auto drafts can be a costly nightmare.
"I felt as though they had tricked me,” Zenwick said.
She said she had closed her accounts at a Florida Fifth Third bank. But then a month later, she was slammed with $560 overdraft fees after the bank paid several auto drafts from her closed account.
“When an account is zero and it’s closed, you expect that’s the end of the relationship,” she said.
In a letter, Fifth Third told Zenwick if auto drafts arrive for payment it could reopen her account and make the payments. "It felt like I had been robbed," she said.
But turning off and stopping auto drafts can seem impossible.
Jerry Nasworthy canceled dental insurance auto drafts, but the company kept taking money from his account, he said.
The bank told him it could not stop the payment.
“Once they started that, they don’t stop it,” Nasworthy said.
Consumer groups said many big banks ignore federal rules that require banks to stop auto payments and no agency is enforcing it.
“I think it’s outrageous that consumers are having problems exercising their legal rights,” said one consumer activist.
And yet, most customers are told they have to close their bank accounts to stop it.
The best protection may be to avoid setting up auto drafts entirely.
Police said it took 15 rescue workers to help save a person who flipped their car over and slid about 300 feet.
Firefighters in Gaston County had to shut down York Highway near Little Mountain Road Monday morning as they worked to flip over the SUV around 2 a.m.
Photos sent to Channel 9 from Crowder’s Mountain Fire and Rescue show debris from the accident covered the road.
Only one person was inside the car.
Medical personnel treated that person on the scene.
Mon, 28 May 2012 11:44:34 -0400
News Source: MedleyStory
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South Gastonia Apartments
There are 97 apartments found in and near the South Gastonia area.
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E Texas Ave, Bessemer City, NC
$49,000
4 bed/2 bath
Northerly Island Ct, Gastonia, NC
$106,000
3 bed/2 bath
Danbury St, Gastonia, NC
$50,000
3 bed/1 bath
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