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VT Lawmakers: Marriage Equality is Now a Priority – w/Poll!

March 6, 2009 By Laurel

Lawmakers in Vermont have announced that they will shepherd through equal marriage legislation week after next. "Passing this bill is the right thing to do at this time," said Sen. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt. President Pro Tem. Shumlin and Rep. … [Read more...]

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Federal DOMA to face challenge

March 3, 2009 By Mr. Lynne

Of course it's pretty self evident that DOMA discriminates.  Of course discrimination by itself isn't wrong... its only wrong when based on 'wrong' criteria (I discriminate based on party affiliation all the time in the voting booth). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-unions, doma, gay, gay-marriage, glbt, justice, lgbt, marriage, taxes

New Jersey District 25 – any hope?

December 13, 2008 By Laurel

In anticipation of the upcoming marriage equality debate in New Jersey, I'm trying to get a feel for the possibilities in my family's district.  They live in District 25, which is represented by 3 republicans: Senator ANTHONY R. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-unions, gay, lgbt, marriage, new-jersey

Time to revoke DOMA – in Manchester today with John Edwards

September 8, 2007 By AmberPaw

Further, Edwards stated that any civil union or gay marriage should receive, and is entitled to receive all the "1100" protections that married couples receive under federal law. He did go on to say that while he fully supports civil … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-unions, defense-of-marriage-act, doma, equal-protection, equal-rights, gay-marriage, iraq, new-orleans

LOGO Forum Snippets and Snipes

August 10, 2007 By massmarrier

Barack ObamaBizarrely enough,  expected listeners to believe that chiding a group of anti-gay Black ministers is all the equality cred he needs. I specifically talked about the degree to which the nation of gay marriage in Black … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-rights, civil-unions, clinton, edwards, gravel, hrc, kucinich, logo, massmarrier, obama, presidential-candidates, richardson, same-sex-marriage

Gov Lynch Signs NH Civil Unions Bill

May 31, 2007 By Laurel

Summary round-upBishop V. Gene Robinson"My partner [Mark Andrew] and I look forward to taking full advantage of the new law," Robinson told the Associated Press....[Civil Unions] "moves us one step closer to the American promise to all its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-unions, lynch, new-hampshire

Easy to say “marriage”

March 23, 2007 By john-howard

This  NYT story has some relevant insight into the civil union versus marriage debate.  It seems that in practice, it isn't very hard to call civil unions marriages:Marcie Horowitz and Margaret Maloney of Westfield, partners for … [Read more...]

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