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NH: Is the GOP Quietly Backing Away From Marriage Equality Repeal?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Republican leaders in the New Hampshire House appear to be distancing themselves from an effort to repeal the state’s gay marriage law.

According to the AP, gay marriage is noticeably absent from the House Republican agenda introduced Thursday.

Republican House Leader D.J. Bettencourt told the AP that gay marriage was not included on the agenda because lawmakers did not need to spend much time on the issue.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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NM: State Representative Introduces Marriage Equality Ban

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

New Mexico State Rep. David Chavez on Tuesday introduced a proposed constitutional amendment which would define marriage as a heterosexual union.

If approved by lawmakers and voters in November, the amendment would bar the state from recognizing gay and lesbian couples with marriage, civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships.

Chavez, a freshman Republican representative, is an attorney from Los Lunas.

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WA: GOP Attorney General Candidate Supports Marriage Equality, Draws Ire

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Republican attorney-general candidate Reagan Dunn is facing a backlash from some GOP leaders and activists over his decision to come out in support of gay marriage.

In the last week, Dunn has been disinvited to big Republican dinners in Whatcom and Franklin counties, and faces a new conservative rival in the attorney-general’s race.

“That’s the name of the game. There has been some blow back,” said Dunn, a Metropolitan King County Council member.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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Tags: attorney general, candidate, gop, marriage equality, reagan dunn, washington state

NY: Four GOP Senators Who Supported Marriage Equality Rewarded With Donations

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The NYT reports that the New York GOP state Senators who voted to pass marriage equality have been rewarded by donors:

State Senator Roy J. McDonald, a Republican who is a Vietnam veteran from Saratoga County, became a momentary folk hero for many gay people when he blurted out that people who were unhappy with his support for same-sex marriage “can take the job and shove it.” He raised about $447,000 in the six months following the vote, about 27 times more than he had raised in the same period in 2009.

Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Republican lawyer from Poughkeepsie whose decision to support same-sex marriage became clear only when he rose to speak during the vote, raised $425,000. For rank-and-file lawmakers in Albany, those are large sums — both men raised more in the latter half of 2011 than did the Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican.

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WA: Second GOP House Member Supports Marriage Equality

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Rep. Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, is the second House Republican to announce support for legislation that would legalize same sex marriage in the state. Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, is a co-sponsor of the bill.

The measure already had 50 signatures — enough votes for passage in the House — without Anderson, but he gets the award for what is likely the longest explanation to date for supporting gay marriage.

There’s a duplicate measure in the Senate where the legislation’s fate is more uncertain.

Full Story from The Seattle Times

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Marriage Equality Foes Choose Santorum to Stop Romney

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Rick Santorum has long drawn the special loathing of supporters of marriage equality for his fierce opposition to the measure, but until recently, he hadn’t had much luck benefitting from the flip side of that: The united support of marriage foes.

Since his Iowa victory, however, he’s begun finally to unite the wing of the Republican Party for whom marriage is a central issue. Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer endorsed Santorum last week, a group of leading social conservatives backed him today, and he just announced the endorsement of one of the highest-profile figures in the marriage wars, Maggie Gallagher, who until recently chaired the National Association for Marriage, the best funded group on its side.

Full Story from BuzzFeed

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Suze Orman: GOP Marriage Equality Policy a Dealbreaker

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Money guru Suze Orman has argued that marriage is a critical election issue for gay men and lesbians.

During an appearance on ABC’s The View, Orman said leading Republican presidential candidates won’t get her vote because they are opposed to the institution.

“Obviously, it is no secret that I’m gay,” Orman told the co-hosts. “So it is very difficult for me to look at any Republican nominee and go, ‘Oh, that’s who I want in office.’”

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WA: Republican in State Senate Supports Marriage Equality

Monday, January 9th, 2012

First, Gov. Chris Gregoire came out in favor of legalizing gay marriage. Now a state lawmaker from Mercer Island, Steve Litzow, has become the first Republican in the Senate to take a bold stance. Check out the Seattle Times editorial commending his decision.

No doubt, the Legislature convening Monday will be consumed with budget woes and other weighty issues. But do not listen to those who say there is no time to do right by gay and lesbian couples. If other lawmakers come to the same reasonable conclusion as Litzow, Washington will become the seventh state in the country to act on an important civil rights issue.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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WA: GOP Legislators Want to Delay Marriage Equality Bill

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Top state lawmakers split Thursday on whether the Legislature should be taking votes on gay marriage during the state’s budget crisis, with Republican leaders saying it will create an unnecessary distraction.

Speaking during the annual Associated Press Legislative Preview, Senate Republican Leader Mike Hewitt said the gay marriage debate would particularly create problems because Democratic budget negotiator Ed Murray is “vested in this personally.” Murray is gay and a long-time proponent of expanding marriage to same-sex couples.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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