Once again, Catholic lawmakers have been prominent in victories for equal marriage, notably in Rhode Island – often described as the “most Catholic” state in the US. In the previous, failed attempt to get legislation through the legislature, this was…
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Equal Marriage Juggernaut Accelerating.
Once again, in just two days major advances for marriage and family equality, in Europe and in the US. As expected, the French lower house of parliament today approved legislation for both gay marriage, and gay adoption. In the US,…
In Valentine’s Week, Marriage Equality Advances: Update
If anyone still has any doubts that marriage equality is on the move in the US, just consider how many advances there have been in just the past few days, in this week of St Valentine: In Washington state, on…
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…
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…
R.I. Catholics Support Gay Marriage – 2 to 1!
In New England, just two of the six states do not yet have marriage equality – Maine, where gay marriage was passed by the legislature before being disappointingly overturned, and Rhode Island. I would expect that to change next year,…
Rhode Island Partner Recognition.
Until the (temporary) disappointment of Prop 1 in Maine, it seemed that Rhode Island was the only stumbling bock on the way to the New England marriage equality goal of “6 by 12″ (all six NE states by 2012) –…
