Vermont gets Same-Sex Marriage!!

The Vermont House has voted 100-49 to override Governor Douglas’ veto. This makes Vermont the fourth U.S. state to offer full marriage rights to same-sex couples, but the first to do so legislatively. Iowa, Massachussets, and Connecticut enacted marriage equality only after court decisions required it. California’s legislature twice passed legislation to legalize marriage for same-sex couples, but the efforts were blocked by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto.

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Status of Marriage Equality in US

In case you were wondering or needed a little refresher NPR release this interactive map showing where each state is in regards to having marriage equality. Take a look at it on their website www.NPR.com

VT House Pass marriage equality legislation!!

The Vermont House of Representatives voted to pass marriage equality legislation last night by a preliminary vote of 95-52. The affirmative vote was cast after particularly stirring testimony from openly LGBT members of the body.

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GAY MARRIAGE IN IOWA!!

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Supreme Court announced its ruling in a landmark same-sex marriage case Friday morning.

The court's written ruling was to be issued on the Iowa Supreme Court's Web site, but traffic to the site crashed the server and took down the Web site.

The court ruled in favor of six same-sex couples who sought to get marriage licenses, but were denied. The ruling means same-sex couples in Iowa can now get married under state law.

The court was reviewing a lower court's ruling that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriages.

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AND IT WAS UNANIMOUS!!!

Iowa and Washington Gay Marriage update

In the state of Washington a same-sex domestic partnership bill, which affords the same rights as married couples, passed the State Senate 30-18 mostly along party lines, reports the Associated Press, and was certainly helped by the six openly gay state senators.

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Matt McCoy, an openly gay senator in Iowa will introduce a marriage bill that would make marriage a gender-neural affair.

Pink News Writes:

"The bill would remove words such as 'husband' and 'wife' from the state's laws, replacing them with 'spouse'.

The legislation means that if the Iowa Supreme Court was to rule that the state’s Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, same-sex marriage would be legal in Iowa and the language in laws would have to reflect that.

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