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        June 6, 2012 -
        
  
        Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        May 7, 2012 -
        
  
        N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) says he wanted a more narrowly worded amendment banning same-sex marriage but was "overruled" by the Alliance Defense Fund, a self-described Christian group that likens homosexuality to pedophilia and claims same-sex marriage leads to bestiality. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        February 21, 2012 -
        
  
        Democrats and voting rights advocates successfully rebuffed an effort to pass a voter photo ID requirement in North Carolina in 2011. Now state Republicans are giving mixed signals about whether voter ID is back on the agenda.