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O’Malley calls for compassion, justice in debate over same-sex marriage
BALTIMORE — Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley — who has said legalizing marriage equality is a high priority for his administration — underscored a need for rational thinking and polite public discourse over the issue in a speech Sunday at the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality.
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Why voting on rights is a lousy idea…
Maine, Washington, and Maryland are all closer than ever to marriage equality, but the Governor of New Jersey thinks that civil rights should be put to a popular vote — whether it’s marriage today, or school desegregation in the 1950s. This week’s Marriage News Watch report is here…
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Christie sees future, Santorum wears George Wallace drag
You can’t scare the public with the gay issue anymore since they no longer are afraid to have us as neighbors. In fact, most Americans want us as their neighbors and pollsters have discovered that 47 percent of strong conservative Republicans would vote for an LGBT person running for office.
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Washington state Senate committee advances marriage equality bill
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state took another step closer to becoming the seventh state to offer full marriage equality as a Senate panel on Thursday advanced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Washington anti-gay pastor: Same-sex marriage will lead men to marry horses
During a televised debate in Washington state on Wednesday, Antioch Bible Church pastor Ken Hutcherson claimed that legalizing same-sex marriage in the state would lead to polygamy, bestiality, and pedophilia.
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Maine voters likely to reconsider marriage equality this year
AUGUSTA, Maine — Marriage equality is headed back to the ballot for a second time in Maine, as gay rights advocates on Thursday submitted petitions signed by 105,000 voters, far more than the 57,277 needed to force a referendum in November.
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NOM promises to ‘reward’ anti-equality legislators after accusing gay activists of buying votes
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is doing exactly what it accused gay activists of doing: buying votes. In New Hampshire, the organization has pledged $250,000 to “reward” politicians who “stand up for restoring traditional marriage.”
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Starbucks, Google, Alcoa latest U.S. corporations to endorse gay marriage
Starbucks, Google, and Alcoa are the latest in a growing list of major corporations to announce their support for marriage equality in Washington state.
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Perkins: Gays won’t be happy with marriage equality because of an ‘Emptiness within Them’
Citing the stories of “ex-gays,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said that gays and lesbians will always have “an emptiness within them” and will never be content with having the right to marry, as “they are operating outside of nature and outside of God’s plan and design.”
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Maryland Governor says marriage bill brings dignity, religious freedom
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — At a gathering on the steps of the governor’s residence in Annapolis, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday called on the state’s residents and lawmakers to join him in supporting his newly drafted same-sex marriage bill.