As Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signs the state’s marriage equality bill into law today, let us reflect on the important role played by Catholics in achieving it, just as New York Catholics were key to the victory there, last year.…
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Catholics Applaud Senate Passage of Marriage Equality in Maryland
Group Says Today’s Victory Would Not Have Been Possible Without Pro-Equality Catholic Leadership. ANNAPOLIS - Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of Catholics who put their faith into ethical and effective political action on behalf of the LGBT…
Maryland Archbishop “Out of Step” With Catholics on Marriage Equality.
Archbishop O’Brien, on this political issue, clearly doesn’t speak for Maryland Catholics,A Grove Insight poll conducted in February 2011, showed that 55% of Catholics in Maryland support civil marriage. This is several points higher than the state at large, so the idea…
R.I. Compromise Approves Civil Unions
New York now has full marriage equality, Illinois, Hawaii, Delaware, Rhode Island have advanced civil unions this year. In New England and the North East, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and DC have…
The Catholic Push For Maryland Equality
Catholics have been prominent in the Maryland push for marriage equality – on both sides of the divide. Delegate Heather Mizeur is a Catholic lesbian who married her spouse, Deborah, five years ago – and is a lead sponsor of the legislation…
Hawaii House Approves Civil Unions, & Other Marriage Equality Updates.
The Hawaii State House yesterday approved a civil unions bill by a comfortable margin. As the Senate has previously passed the measure, all that is now requited is some tinkering to reconcile the minor differences in the two versions, before…
Marriage Equality Gaining Ground in Maryland.
The movement to marriage equality continues to show progress in Maryland. As lawmakers in the Maryland House and Senate formally kicked off their push for gay marriage, a new poll has shown that for the first time, an absolute majority…
Primary Elections Advance Marriage Equality
In Tuesday’s primary elections (just as in earlier primaries), some clear advances were recorded towards LGBT equality – notably in New York and Maryland, but also elsewhere. Why does this matter to me? I am not a New Yorker, or even…
Marriage Equality Inching Closer in Maryland, New York?
Just as “gay marriage” is receding as an electoral issue on the US right, it is becoming an issue on the left. Two stated where this of current importance are New York and Maryland. In Maryland, two recent news reports…
