We’re counting down the days to a Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8. Marriage may go to voters in Ohio, but there’s some dispute over timing. New polls show ongoing progress in California and across the nation. And New Mexico’s Attorney General addresses the challenges to the state’s marriage ban.
Matt says the Supreme Court currently plans to release rulings on 6/13, 6/17, and 6/24, so it could be any one of those days, or they could add an additional day(s) as well.
Another week, another set of victories — this time it’s Delware and Rhode Island, which are now just inches away from finalizing the freedom to marry and becoming state #10 and #11. Now it’s on to the next states: Nevada and Pennsylvania are both making strides, but there’s still more lots more work to do. Plus: civil unions start this week in Colorado, which is great — but voters appear ready to upgrade that to full marriage equality. Here’s this week’s episode:
Bipartisan support for marriage equality continues to grow, with a high-profile Republican coming out for marriage this week. President Obama comments the marriage cases before the Supreme Court, while new legislation advances in Colorado, Minnesota, and Rhode Island.
We’ve got lots of good news this week, from an op-ed by President Clinton to progress on Colorado’s civil unions. Plus a slew of favorable polls shows momentum building in key states, and opposition shrinking into just a few tightly-knit pockets. All that plus we’re counting down to oral argument in AFER’s Prop 8 case.
It’s been a busy week, but we have even bigger news coming in just a few days with briefs in the Prop 8 and DOMA cases. Meanwhile, relationship recognition wins Senate votes in Colorado and Illinois, and new marriage initiatives are launching in Texas and Oregon.
Here we are at the end of 2012, and after a year of amazing progress we’re closer than ever to full federal marriage equality. Think about where we were a year ago with Prop 8, with DOMA, with marriage laws from state to state.
So much has happened since then. So let’s do a quick year-in-review to get you caught up with the progress we made in 2012, and where we’re going to focus in 2013, including which states are the most likely to make headlines in the coming year.
More suspense from the Supreme Court, with an announcement in the Prop. 8 case pushed back to Friday at the earliest.
Meanwhile, a setback in a Nevada lawsuit, but now the case goes to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
That court previously ruled in favor of marriage equality in the Prop. 8 case. And with a string of losses and plummeting poll numbers, anti-gay groups are quickly running out of donors.
We’re counting down the days to a Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8. Marriage may go to voters in Ohio, but there’s some dispute over timing. New polls show ongoing progress in California and across the nation. And New Mexico’s Attorney General addresses the challenges to the state’s marriage ban.
