{"id":13992,"date":"2012-02-24T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/02\/24\/13992.html"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:46:10","slug":"marriage-equality-news-from-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/02\/24\/marriage-equality-news-from-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage equality news from all over (the US)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remarkable stuff keeps happening in the world of marriage equality. Some tidbits from the past couple weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Washington state signed marriage equality into law. Sadly, before it can go into effect, there will most likely be a referendum in November to approve or reject it. (Possibly even two different referenda with opposite Yes\/No phrasing.) (<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonunitedformarriage.org\/\">Washington United for Marriage<\/a> will presumably work to defend the new law against the referenda, if you want to help out.)<\/li>\n  <li>The New Jersey legislature passed a marriage equality bill. Gov. Christie vetoed it. The legislature now has two years to gather enough votes to override the veto. (I'm guessing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenstateequality.org\/\">Garden State Equality<\/a> is involved in that effort, but I'm not certain.)<\/li>\n  <li>The Maryland legislature passed a marriage equality bill, and Gov. O'Malley is going to sign it soon. Here too there'll most likely be a referendum in November before it can go into effect. Still: Eight states! Plus Washington, DC! (If you want to help out, I'm guessing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitymaryland.org\/\">Equality Maryland<\/a> will be heavily involved in trying to defeat the referendum.)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Same-sex_marriage_in_Maine\">Maine passed an equality law in 2009<\/a>, but a referendum that year rejected it. Now equality advocates have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-02-23\/maine-gay-marriage-advocates-get-enough-signatures-for-ballot.html\">gathered enough signatures<\/a> for a new referendum this year to bring it back. (Want to help pass the referendum? Donate to <a href=\"http:\/\/equalitymaine.org\/\">Equality Maine<\/a>.)<\/li>\n  <li>An equality bill has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynorthwestern.com\/city\/illinois-general-assembly-introduces-marriage-equality-bill-1.2700942\">introduced in Illinois<\/a>, but it sounds pretty unlikely to pass.<\/li>\n  <li>I already talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/02\/11\/13975.html\">Prop 8 ruling<\/a> a couple weeks ago. Now the Prop 8 proponents have filed a request to have that case re-heard by a larger panel of the appeals court. (This is not unexpected; it was one of their most likely options.) I've seen speculation that they're hoping for a less-narrow ruling in order to make it more likely that the US Supreme Court will agree to take the next appeal.<\/li>\n  <li>A Federal judge in California has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/poliglot\/2012\/02\/domas-federal-definition-of-ma.html\">ruled DOMA unconstitutional<\/a>. This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/blatantly-unconstitutional-law-ruled-unconstitutional\/\">second time that's happened<\/a>, and I think there are a few other cases currently awaiting decisions too. The US-House-Republican-appointed legal committee assigned to defend DOMA (because the Obama administration has said that they're not going to) will presumably appeal all such decisions.<\/li>\n  <li>A gay hairdresser in New Mexico has made clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southfloridagaynews.com\/news\/national-news\/5708-hairdresser-bans-nm-governor-over-gay-marriage.html\">the reason he declined to cut the governor's hair<\/a> a couple months ago (after having cut it two or three times some months earlier) was her opposition to marriage equality.<\/li>\n  <li>A lesbian judge in Texas is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/gay-texas-judge-refuses-to-wed-straight-couples\/2012\/02\/24\/gIQAwtKrXR_blog.html\">refusing to marry opposite-sex couples<\/a> until Texas has marriage equality. (On the one hand, I think that's kinda awesome&mdash;but on the other hand I worry that it's a little too close to those state officials in states that do have marriage equality who've declared that they won't marry same-sex couples. Haven't thought through this at all, just musing.)<\/li>\n  <li>There are marriage-equality bans under consideration in legislatures in North Carolina and Minnesota, alas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot going on, much of which won't be decided until November or later. Fingers crossed that everything goes well.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable stuff keeps happening in the world of marriage equality. 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