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I am home again and cannot paste (frickin ipad), but wanted to mention that the Hawaii State legislature is beginning the process today to move to marriage equality.
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Hawaii Senate passes same-sex marriage bill
Bill now goes to the House; committee hearing scheduled for Thursday HONOLULU —The Hawaii Senate voted Wednesday in a 20-4 vote to approve the bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Democratic Sen. Clayton Hee said before voting for the bill that the moment is career-defining and lawmakers should embrace it. Hee says Hawaii should expand its definition of aloha to truly include everyone regardless of sexual orientation. The House plans to refer the bill later Wednesday to a joint committee hearing on Thursday. The hearing is likely to be jammed with public testimony, with the possibility of being extended to a second day. The bill's prospects are far less certain in the House, though lawmakers and Gov. Neil Abercrombie have said they believe the measure has enough support to pass. House Majority Leader Scott Saiki says it's likely the chamber will amend the bill to change religious exemptions. The Senate bill currently exempts ministers and other clergy from having to perform gay wedding ceremonies, but not for-profit businesses. -KITV News |
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An Amazing confluence of newly attained rights. Same sex marriage becomes legal in New York, and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" becomes illegal, so these young West Point Grads get married in the West Point Chapel.
I am amazed yet again at the progress that has been made in my lifetime. AMAZED. Smooches, Keri West Point hosts first wedding between 2 men  AP Photo: Jill Knight West Point graduates Larry, left, and Daniel Lennox-Choate, leave church following their wedding ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the US Military Academy's Cadet Chapel in West Point, N.Y. Larry Choate III married Daniel Lennox Saturday afternoon at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel. It was the first wedding of two men at West Point. WEST POINT, N.Y. — Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy's first wedding between two men. Larry Choate III, class of 2009, married Daniel Lennox, class of 2007, before about 20 guests. Choate, 27, taught Sunday school at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel and said he always thought of it as the place he would get married if he could. West Point hosted two same-sex weddings of women in late 2012, more than a year after New York state legalized gay marriage. But Saturday's wedding was the first time two men wed at West Point. "It's maybe one more barrier that's pushed over a little bit, or maybe one more glass ceiling that's shattered that makes it easier for the next couple," Choate said Friday. Choate and Lennox are out of the military and wore tuxedoes for the ceremony. Some of their guests were in uniform. The 28-year-old Lennox is getting his master's degree in business administration at Harvard University. Choate is applying to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The pair did not know each other as cadets but met later through a friend. Chaplain Cynthia Lindenmeyer officiated at the ceremony |
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Today the Illinois House passed their marriage equality bill!!
The bill is on the way to the Governor who said if it passed he would sign it. Congratulations Illinois! 15 states and D.C....one at a time. |
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Today it was on the news that Texas court has DENIED same sex couples that were legally married in other states to become divorced in this state; saying that if they recognized their marriages from other states that it would interfere with the State Law in Texas that is against same sex marriage.... can't even get divorced in this state if you are same sex married couple living here from another state where your marriage is legal.
I don't know what it will take for my home state of Texas to just go ahead and do what the right thing is for us queer folk and let us have the choice of getting legally married or not like other states have done in the rest of these United States...........which I see as Divided States.
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