A few days after a Senate Committee held a hearing on the pending marriage equality bill, a group of mayors are pushing for the bill’s passage. ABC 6 reports:
Five Rhode Island mayors are banding together to push for gay marriage. The mayors of Providence, Warwick, Pawtucket, Cumberland and Central Falls are launching a campaign today called, “mayors for marriage equality.”
This mirrors a larger movement in the country that we’ve reported on before. At last check, the national Mayors for Marriage Equality had almost 300 members.
It’s great to see this ground-up, grassroots effort to compliment the work done by state-wide and national organizations.
Now if we can just get a Senate floor vote?
Find more articles and gay wedding resources in Rhode Island.
“Marriage is contracted by two people of different sexes or the same sex.” This is the wording of the key article in the draft law to legalize civil marriage for gay people, which France’s Council of Ministers will examine on 31 October. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault confirmed this on Wednesday, October 10, adding that he hoped for a quick vote so that the reform, a campaign promise made by President Francois Hollande, could be implemented next year.
