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HRC infuses $1 million additional funds to fight marriage referendums in four states
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign on Monday announced a further $1 million cash infusion adding to earlier funding and significant on-the-ground work in the four states facing marriage-related ballot measures in November – Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.
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Poll: Majority of Maryland voters would protect marriage equality law
BALTIMORE — A majority of Maryland voters approve of marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, according to a statewide poll released Thursday.
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Maryland election officials certify same-sex marriage referendum petition
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland election officials on Tuesday officially certified a petition to prompt a November referendum on the state’s same-sex marriage law.
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Round-up: Military benefits, Maryland opponents in debt, Spain ‘redefines’
A proposed new law would let the Army recognize the spouses of service-members for the first time ever. Anti-gay activists in Maryland collect enough signatures to force a referendum, but now they’re tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And seven years after legalizing marriage equality, Spain finally lets gay and lesbian couples into the dictionary.
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Maryland same-sex marriage opponents report $88,000 in debt
Opponents of Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on Monday reported that their campaign to spur a referendum on the issue is more than $88,000 in debt.
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Two more pastors, two different states, advocate for the killing of gays
Two more “men of God” — Curtis Knapp of the New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, and Dennis Leatherman, pastor at the Mountain Lake Baptist Church in Oakland, Md. — are on record as advocating for the death of gays and lesbians.
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Gay marriage foes say they have signatures to put issue on Maryland ballot
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Opponents of same-sex marriage in Maryland announced Tuesday they have collected more than twice the number of signatures needed to put the state’s new marriage equality law to a public vote on November’s ballot.
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Majority of Maryland voters would vote in favor of same-sex marriage
BALTIMORE – A new Public Policy Poll of Maryland voters shows a decisive majority (57 percent) would vote in favor of same-sex marriage if it’s on the ballot this fall, while 37 percent would vote against.
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Leaked GOP memo reveals supports for same-sex marriage
A leaked memo urges an about-face for anti-equality Republicans. A civil unions bill dies in Colorado, for now. But access to marriage expands in Rhode Island, and more new surveys confirm the ever-growing public support for equality.
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Maryland high court: Same-sex couple married out of state may seek divorce
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, on Friday ruled that same-sex couples married out of state are legally permitted to seek a divorce in the state, even though Maryland does not yet permit same-sex marriages.