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Marriage Equality Resolution Struck Down By Tribal Council During Pride Month

“About two weeks before the session I was called and they said, This is the first session. It’s just a reading, where it s given a number. It s a formality and no action can be taken, so you don t even need to be there, ” said Thompson, who did not attend the council meeting. According to the code Under Sec. 117-38(b) when a resolution is first presented at council, it is numbered and then no action can be taken for 25 days. The code reads: “No member may propose any motion or amendment to the ordinance at the first reading.”

Eastern Band Cherokee Marriage Equality Resolution Struck Down During Pride Month

Eastern Band Cherokee Marriage Equality Resolution Struck Down During Pride Month
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Tribal Council silent on proposed same-sex marriage law

Wednesday, June 09, 2021 Every month, the Tribal Council agenda starts the same way. The chairman calls the meeting to order, and then there’s a prayer, a roll call, a call for requested changes to the agenda and a unanimous vote to deem the ever-present list of new proposed ordinances read and tabled. That’s not how the June 1 meeting went.  “Mr. Chairman, I know it’s out of the ordinary, but I’d like to deem items two through nine read and tabled,” said Vice Chairman David Wolfe after Chairman Adam Wachacha asked for changes to the agenda.  Wolfe’s move left out Item One, an ordinance submitted by tribal member Tamara Thompson to legalize same-sex marriage on the Qualla Boundary. About 13 minutes later, Wachacha reminded Council that it had not deemed Thompson’s ordinance read and tabled. 

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