 An NBC station in Tennessee is refusing to broadcast footage of a gay soldier who wants to get married. The governor of North Carolina has vetoed a bill that would let state officials turn away gay couples who want a marriage license, but the bill's not dead yet. And Alabama is actually going through with the threat to stop issuing marriage licenses statewide, although that may not have the effect they think it will. For the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume, and welcome to Marriage News Watch for June 1st, 2015. Here's the ad that a Tennessee TV station refused to air. It features a soldier talking about putting his life on the line as a military physician and how he would like to marry his boyfriend, a state judge. So why did NBC station WRCB reject the ad? Too controversial, they said. Marriage equality crosses the line. Meanwhile, this ad just started airing in Georgia, and even though it features various gay couples and their kids talking about marriage equality, somehow, multiple TV stations deemed it appropriate to broadcast. Hopefully Georgia will survive seeing these highly controversial images. Meanwhile, in Texas, multiple anti-gay bills have gone down in flames. Many of the proposed new laws would have caused drastic harm, and several probably weren't even constitutionally valid. The most the Senate was able to pass was a non-binding declaration in opposition to LGBT couples. That's still not great, but it could have been a lot worse. Speaking of worse, a proposed bill in North Carolina to stop LGBTs from marrying came very close to passing last week. The law would have allowed state officials to choose which citizens they want to serve or turn away, in effect using personal preference to overrule their oath of office. Governor Pat McCrory vetoed the bill after it passed the legislature, but there are still enough votes to override the veto if legislatures really want to push for it. Lawmakers in Alabama have been threatening to do away with marriage licenses altogether, and now it looks like they may actually be making good on their threat. The Senate has passed a bill that stops the state from issuing licenses to any couple, gay or straight. The impact of that is actually pretty minimal. Anyone can still get married. They just don't need to fill out as much paperwork from the state. So okay. We'll have a ruling from the Supreme Court on marriage very soon, which could settle the issue nationwide, once and for all, or it could prolong the fight indefinitely. Subscribe here on YouTube to stay up to date for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. I'm Matt Baume. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next week.