The impressive feature of yesterday’s victory for marriage equality was the extent of Republican support for defending marriage equality. The GOP has an overwhelming 3 to 1 majority in the State House, but the bill went down by almost 2…
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AP: “NH House kills gay marriage repeal bill”
The Associated Press headline above is misleading. The NH legislators did not simply “kill” the bill to repeal marriage equality – they slaughtered it, then it was hung drawn and quartered, and impaled on stakes outside the legislature as a…
Should Two Left-handed People Be Permitted to Marry?
The Catholic theologian James Alison and others have frequently made the point that there are many parallels between left -handedness and homosexuality. Both occur entirely naturally in a small but significant minority of people, both are entirely non-pathological – and…
NH Voters Oppose Gay Marriage Repeal
With a number of US states in the news over reports of moves to provide for same – sex marriage (legislative initiatives in Washington, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois, a voters’ referendum in Maine, and last week’s court victory in…
Conservatives Rallying to Preserve Gay Marriage, New Hampshire.
Sometime next month, the GOP-controlled legislature in New Hampshire will take up consideration of a bill to repeal marriage equality that was introduced when the state was controlled by Democrats. One of the fascinating features of this proposal has been…
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…
