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NH: House to Vote on Gay Marriage Repeal, Constitutional Ban on Wednesday

Monday, February 15th, 2010

New Hampshire’s House votes Wednesday whether to repeal the state’s six-week-old law legalizing gay marriage. The House also will vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

The Judiciary Committee is recommending that the House kill both measures. Gay marriage supporters said gay couples have gotten married without any detrimental impact on society. They also said it would be wrong to enshrine discrimination in the Constitution.

Opponents said the consummation of gay unions can’t be spoken of in polite society. They also said voters should decide, not lawmakers if the marriages should be allowed.

Full Story from WCAX
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HI: House to Decide Today Whether to Vote on Civil Unions Bill

Friday, January 29th, 2010

State House Democrats will meet in private caucus this morning to decide whether to bring a civil-unions bill to a vote or whether to indefinitely postpone action this session. Private vote counts in the House last night found that barely a majority of lawmakers now support the bill, well short of the two-thirds state House Speaker Calvin Say said he wanted to show that the House could override a potential veto.

“At this point, the vote looks razor-thin close,” said state House Majority Leader Blake Oshiro, D-33rd (‘Aiea, Hālawa Valley, ‘Aiea Heights).

The state Senate approved a civil-unions bill last Friday that would give same-sex and heterosexual couples the ability to enter into civil unions and receive the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as marriage under state law.

Full Story from the Honolulu Advertiser
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