Advocates of family equality in Maryland had hoped that the advent of marriage parity in New York would translate to new hope for a similar law in their own state. But legislators have an answer to that: Not so fast.
The Maryland State Senate passed a marriage equality bill earlier this year, but the measure was two votes shy of the support it would have needed to pass the House of Delegates. Lawmakers set the bill aside without a vote to avoid seeing it fail.
But when Maryland equality advocates took note of the strong leadership of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the support that the bill drew even from Republican state lawmakers they began to wonder whether a similar combination would work to win same-sex families first-class citizenship in their state, Maryland news source Gazette.net reported on June 27.
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