Connecticut’s highest court legalizes same-sex marriage after a 4 year legal battle in the state court system.
The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a lower courts ruling by 4-3, allowing full-fledged marriage for same-sex couples.
The supreme court said that a ban on gay marriage is an infringement on the “fundamental right” of same-sex couples.
As you may (or [...]
Sooo, whether you’re for Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin, what did you think of the VP debate last night? More specifically, what did you think about the portion of the debate where they talked about same-sex couples rights and same-sex marriage??
I want to hear your opinions on this. Here’s my take on Obama. I [...]
Remember when I posted on here the video with Stacey Sobel, the former Executive Director of Equality Advocates PA? Well Stacey and I met up that day in Harrisburg because there was a hearing going on in regards to the SB 1250 bill, “The Marriage Protection” amendment that they were trying to pass in [...]
I apologize but I had this posted before but lost it when we moved over to the new server. So here it is again:
The top 6 Episcopal Bishops in California go on record with their opposition to Proposition 8. Remember, Proposition 8 is the ballot inititive that folks can vote on in November [...]
In California, they are putting Proposition 8 on the November ballot. We had talked about this before but let’s bring it up again. This is a proposed consititutional amendment that would ELIMINATE THE RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY! The Attorney General, Jerry Brown, just recently changed the wording to say that. But be on [...]
I was just reading this post called Gay Marriage Is Good For America by Jonathan Rauch and I have to say I was rather impressed with how he explained certain things. And how he asked heterosexual folks to go back through their life and to imagine that they never, ever had any hope of marriage. He [...]
I just read that the Massachusetts state legislature is about to strike up a bill that will repeal a law from 1913 that prevents non-resident same sex couples from marrying in the state. It most likely will happen before the close of the legislative session at the end of July.
Massachusetts Governor DeVal Patrick said he [...]
Rothman announced last week how he believes in the legalization of marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Rothman didn’t always believe this in regards to gay and lesbian couples but what changed for him?
Well he got remarried and his new wife has 3 children and one of Rothman’s new step-children happens to be a lesbian.
Rothman [...]
Equality California filed a legal brief stating that the initiative is a REVISION - not an amendment - to the state constitution, therefore it requires state legislative involvment and not a majority vote.
The court will rule on this in the summer.
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You read that right. California’s Supreme Court ruled today that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
But listen….California residents who are GLBT and also California residents who are friends or family members of the California GLBT community….there are those major opponents who are attempting to get an amendment going by [...]