Marriage Equality

In New Hampshire, GOP majority won’t push to repeal marriage equality (for now)

CONCORD, N.H. -- House Republican leaders will not push for the repeal of gay marriage laws this year, but they won't work to stop it either, House Majority Leader Rep. D.J. Bettencourt said today.

Bettencourt laid out the GOP agenda for the coming year, focusing on budget, pension reform, education funding, parental rights and the economy.

Lawmakers have requested legislative staff to draft bills to repeal gay marriage laws that took effect Jan. 1, 2010. They have not been completed, and if introduced would have work their way through the legislative process.

New Hampshire legislator files two bills that would repeal marriage equality

(This post was originally published at GLAAD Blog)

Wedding of the priests: Personal is political

Editor's note: On Jan. 1, 2011, two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church, The Very Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and the Rev. Canon Mally Ewing Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of Massachusetts, were married in Boston. Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, the state’s highest-ranking Episcopal official, presided over the ceremony. Opinions about this wedding have circulated the Internet. The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale pens her story exclusively for dot429.

Maryland’s wait for marriage equality may be nearly over

Same-sex marriage is, if nothing else, a waiting game.

Consider the position the District found itself in for years. A majority of D.C. Council members might have voted through a gay marriage bill a decade ago, but a Republican Congress would have crushed the effort. But piece by piece, council members laid the groundwork, and last year, the city's gay couples could marry at last.

Now it appears that the wait in Maryland is nearing an end. The State House's Democratic majorities have been blocked by Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller Jr., who has opposed gay marriage.

New Hampshire braces to become battleground state over marriage equality

The Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., has vowed to do "whatever it takes" to repeal gay marriage in New Hampshire. Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston is promising to do "whatever it takes" to stop them.

From Massachusetts to Maine, Washington to New York, gay marriage activists have their eye on New Hampshire, where lawmakers this session will consider whether to repeal the year-old law permitting same-sex marriage.

As local activists pay homage to the idea of a "New Hampshire discussion," both sides are preparing for a deluge of outside money and support.

Message from Rob Reiner: A good love story touched his heart

I know a good love story when I see it.

When I met the two couples challenging Prop. 8, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, my heart melted.

How is it that some loving couples are denied the fundamental freedom to marry? It’s just not right. It’s un-American.

Please join me in making a special year-end donation so that gay and lesbian couples can have the freedom to marry.

Argued by two of the nation’s best attorneys, Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, AFER’s groundbreaking case challenging Prop. 8 is at a critical juncture.

VIDEO: Joe Biden says gay marriage is inevitable

Vice President Joe Biden discussed the victory of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" today on ABC's "Good Morning America" and stated that challenges will come early in 2011 with regards to taxes and debt.

Biden also discussed the war, but most revealing, however, was his statement about gay marriage. In light of President Barack Obama's statement about his evolving views of gay marriage, Biden said he feels that the country's view is also evolving and inevitably we will have marriage equality.

After fall of DADT, pushing for “I do”

WASHINGTON — The Republican senator from North Carolina was blunt. “Because she’s a damn lesbian,” Jesse Helms snapped, explaining to The Washington Times why he would vote against Roberta Achtenberg, President Bill Clinton’s nominee for assistant housing secretary. Later, he clarified, calling her “a militant, activist, mean lesbian.”

VIDEO: Tell Apple to stand strong against anti-gay activists

Apple removed the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration iPhone app from its store earlier this month in response to public outcry.

Apple's action sent a powerful message that the company stands against intolerance. The app features an electronic version of a declaration, through which users can pledge to "make whatever sacrifices are required" to oppose marriage equality, even, presumably, if that means breaking the law.

VIDEO: Prop. 8 attorney David Boies tells Stephen Colbert marriage is one of the most important rights in America

The "Gay-volution" is being televised, Stephen Colbert says in his introduction to a Proposition 8 segment that aired Tuesday night.

Before welcoming Prop. 8 attorney David Boies, Colbert says of the unlikely union of Boies (who defended Al Gore) and Ted Olson (who defended Bush), "Gay marriage makes for strange bedfellows."

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