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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
It's official! Governor Chris Gregoire and Secretary of State Sam Reed certified the election results on Tuesday. The new domestic partnership law will now go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, December 3. There are currently 13,082 people in registered domestic partnerships in both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples where at least one partner is 62 or older....
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WickedGayBlog.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just days after vetoing a funeral planning bill for domestic partners, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri stunned many LGBT observers when he said he was open to supporting domestic partnership legislation. Carcieri met with Queer Action of RI members in his State House office two days after the veto. The governor told the group he was open to supporting a law that would provide same-sex...
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Gay Geeks.Org (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
A ridiculous talking point from the Family Research Council regarding the D.C. Council's pro-marriage equality vote: Some Council members proudly recounted the various steps, from repeal of sodomy laws to adoption of domestic partnerships, which led to this day--unintentionally confirming...
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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Larry Stickney just suffered a stinging defeat. By failing to prevent the approval of Referendum 71, he proved not only that the majority of Washington voters support full domestic partnerships (including voters in his own Snoho mish County), but even that God endorses marriage equality . Stickney & Co. spent almost $600,000 pursuing this failure, according to state records . That's...
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Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act is intended to "provide the same family benefits to lesbian and gay federal civilian employees as are already provided to employees with different-sex spouses." So of course the Religious Right doesn't like it because a) it undermines "traditional marriage," b) it costs money, and c) it discriminates against straight...
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Gay Geeks.Org (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Family Policy Institute of Washington lost its recent anti-domestic partnerships fight by waging one of the most over-the-top, faith-based, wantonly hostile campaigns in recent memory. Now that it's on the record books, FPIW is trying a new approach. Namely:...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
But this month, clergy and laypeople at a diocesan convention endorsed a resolution expressing hope that Shaw would allow clergy to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. They cited legislation approved at the Episcopal Church’s general convention last summer declaring that “bishops, particularly those in dioceses within civil jurisdictions where same- gender marriage, civil unions, or domestic...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... review period ticks down. Under the proposed legislation, the district would end the existing domestic partnership law and expand all rights and responsibilities associated with marriage to cover same-sex couples . Another provision of the bill wipes away gender-specific language from the city code, assuring that married gay and lesbian couples are guaranteed to be treated the same...
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The Lead (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... those in dioceses within civil jurisdictions where same-gender marriage, civil unions, or domestic partnerships are legal, [to] provide generous pastoral response to meet the needs of members.") Otherwise it's business as usual for clergy navigating rules for officiating at marriage services: Shaw notes, "We request that our clergy follow as they ordinarily would the other canonical...
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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... fact plenty of momentum for equality. Don't forget that Washington State voters just ratified full domestic partnerships at the ballot box. Garden State Equality has another rally planned for this Thursday in Trenton demanding that the marriage equality bill is posted this legislative session. " Just show up at 110 W. State Street, Trenton NJ 08608, beginning at 8am , and lend...
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The Lead (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Archbishop Donald Wuerl, who has said the church will not be able to remain in its social service partnerships with the city if the measure passes, to consider domestic partnership policies used in San Francisco and at Georgetown University. Specifically, the policies' offering of benefits to employees and someone else of their choosing who lives with them. This is being...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... legislative actions in the past five years, while another 10 states allow either civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Meanwhile, proponents of traditional marriage point to their own successes — 41 states now have statutes or constitutional amendments that define marriage as between a man and a woman. And in each of the 31 states where the question of defining...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... legislative actions in the past five years, while another 10 states allow either civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Story continues belowMeanwhile, proponents of traditional marriage point to their own successes — 41 states now have statutes or constitutional amendments that define marriage as between a man and a woman. And in each of the where the question...
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Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... and cover my children with my health insurance,'" said Traiman, who helped pass the nation's first domestic partnership law a quarter-century ago in Berkeley. In the weeks since Maine voters handed the gay marriage movement its 27th electoral defeat in five years, other activists have voiced similar qualms about making marriage their main goal. Gay rights leaders have insisted that...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... hospital and cover my children with my health insurance,"' said Traiman, who helped pass the first domestic partnership law in the U.S. a quarter-century ago in Berkeley, California.In the weeks since voters in the northeastern state of Maine handed the country's gay marriage movement its 27th electoral defeat in five years, other activists have voiced similar qualms about making...
