Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and a native of Hickory, has written to the N.C. General Assembly urging it to reject the same-sex marriage amendment. Hughes and his fiancé, political activist and philanthropist Sean Eldridge, pledge to donate $10 for each person who “likes” Equality NC’s page on Facebook – up to $10,000 – between now and Tuesday.
The money will go to help Equality NC fight the marriage amendment, which he says, “is bad for business, bad for the perception of my home state on the national stage, and a far cry from job-creating legislation that North Carolina lawmakers should be focused on.”
Hughes’ letter says he knows what it’s like to grow up different in a small Southern town, and that this legislation “will only perpetuate this stigma for a new generation of creative, talented youth, uninterested in second-class citizenship in a state they call home.”
