NH Governor John Lynch Will Sign Gay Marriage Bill

Contents:

• NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• GAYS SH TO MARRY AT NEW HAMPSHIRE STATEHOE
• NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY-MARRIAGE BILL
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS NEW HAMPSHIRE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• N.H. LAWMAKERS CONSIR ROLLG BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• NEW HAMPSHIRE LATT STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGESTATE BE SIXTH TO ALLOW SAME-SEX {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY GIL KFMANJUNE 4, 2009/1:35 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY GIL KFMANJUNE 4, 2009 / 1:35 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW HAMPSHIRE LATT STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2009-06-04T17:35:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2009-06-04T17:35:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON WEDNDAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE BEME THE SIXTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY UPL TO WED. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE APPROVED REVISNS TO A SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE BILL, AND WAS PROMPTLY SIGNED BY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR JOHN LYNCH, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BILL WAS PASSED AFTER PROVISNS REQUTED BY LYNCH WERE ADD THAT ENSURED WOULD NOT FORCE RELIG ANIZATNS THAT OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TO PARTICIPATE CEREMONI CELEBRATG . THE ORIGAL BILL EXEMPTED MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY OM HAVG TO PERFORM SAME-SEX MARRIAG, BUT LYNCH SAID HE WOULD VETO UNLS LANGUAGE WAS ADD THAT WOULD ALSO EXEMPT RELIG GROUPS AND THEIR EMPLOYE OM HAVG TO TAKE PART SUCH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LYNCH HAD LONG SUPPORTED CIVIL UNNS FOR SAME-SEX UPL -- WHICH AFFORD SOME, BUT NOT ALL, OF THE RIGHTS AND RPONSIBILI AS MARRIAGE -- BUT HAD NOT ENDORSED MARRIAGE FOR GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT FOLLOWG THE SIGNG OF THE BILL, HE SAID THE ARGUMENTS HE HEARD FAVOR OF FULL MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR GAYS NVCED HIM THAT "A SEPARATE SYSTEM IS NOT AN EQUAL SYSTEM. ... TODAY, WE ARE STANDG UP FOR THE LIBERTI OF SAME-SEX UPL BY MAKG CLEAR THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE THE SAME RIGHTS, RPONSIBILI -- AND RPECT -- UNR NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW." NEW HAMPSHIRE PASSED A CIVIL-UNN LAW TWO YEARS AGO, AND THOSE UNNS WILL NOW NVERT TO MARRIAG ON JANUARY 1, 2011, IF THE UPL DON'T TAKE ACTN TO NVERT THEM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEW MARRIAGE LAW WILL TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1. GAY MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL IOWA APRIL, JOG MASSACHETTS, MAE, CONNECTICUT AND VERMONT AS STAT THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. NEW YORK IS ALSO NSIRG A BILL THAT WOULD LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE THAT STATE, AND GAY-RIGHTS ADVOT CALIFORNIA HAVE VOWED TO TRY AND PUT A REFERENDUM ON THE 2010 BALLOT AN EFFORT TO OVERTURN [ARTICLE ID="1598748"]PROPOSN 8[/ARTICLE], WHICH PASSED NOVEMBER AND REFED MARRIAGE THE STATE AS UNNS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEAD TO TO FD A MUNY WHERE YOU, YOUR IENDS AND YOUR FAVORE CELEBRI N GET RMED, GET HEARD AND TAKE ACTN ON THE ISSU THAT MATTER TO YOU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• NEW HAMPSHIRE SET FOR DIVISIVE GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• AS GAY MARRIAGE GAS GROUND NATN, NEW HAMPSHIRE MAY REVOKE ITS LAW
• NEW HAMPSHIRE GAY-MARRIAGE BILL MAY GET TANGLED UP SENATE

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

"The ernor didn’t want to, he had mpaigned agast gay marriage beg passed when he ra 2008, sayg let’s give civil unns a try… and when got to the Senate there was still reluctance to al wh bee we had a recsn and some other issu.

New Hampshire had seen several high profile stori up close: Charlie Man, a New Hampshire Natnal Guard member who sued to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act to see that her wife uld receive survivor benefs after her ath, and Gene Robson, elected the first openly gay Epispal bishop and a vol backer of same-sex marriage. ”An early surgeIn 2010, New Hampshire beme the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, at a time when more than two dozen stat had enacted laws or nstutnal amendments agast the practice and Congrs had passed the Defense Of Marriage Act, which nied feral regnn of gay Hampshire followed Massachetts, which was the first state to legalize the marriage back 2004, and Vermont, which 2009 beme the first state to legalize through legislatn rather than a surprisgly, there was a surge of tert the weddgs New Hampshire, both om upl who already had a civil unn, which had been legal New Hampshire for two years, and om those who had never had any legal first full year of legalizatn, a whoppg 10. The only exceptn was 2017, but even then, numbers were virtually level, creasg by jt ne om the year Bonto, director of the Civil Rights Project for GLAD, a long-time advocy group for gay rights, said an email rponse that the cle is a reflectn of how gay marriage has bee route.

However, ’s not at all clear that gay and lbian upl do have the same level of tert marryg that oppose-sex upl might be that the prsure to marry is greater for men and women livg together bee of historil norms, or might be that the prsure to marry is greater for same-sex upl bee their muny has fought so hard for the we’ll have to see what happens the is, by the way, one tertg difference between Massachetts and New Hampshire on this topic: Genr Massachetts, nearly half of same-sex marriag are between two men, whereas New Hampshire, only one-third of them are. State to thorize gay marriage, epeng a New England niche for same-sex weddgs and the spendg that wh Hampshire’s Democratic-ntrolled Hoe of Reprentativ endorsed gay marriage a 198-176 vote, hours after the state Senate approved the legislatn 14-10 along party l, makg the state the fourth this year to back gay marriage the Uned Stat.

GAYS SH TO MARRY AT NEW HAMPSHIRE STATEHOE

“Today, we are standg up for the liberti of same-sex upl by makg clear that they will receive the same rights, rponsibili, and rpect, unr New Hampshire law, ” Lynch said a law also regniz out-of-state gay marriag and civil unns, which are legal jt a handful of U. Stat explicly prohib same-sex marriage, cludg 29 wh nstutnal week, California’s supreme urt backed a ban on gay marriage by upholdg a voter-approved proposn fg marriage as between a man and a stark ntrast, gay-marriage laws are expandg swiftly on the East Coast, pecially New England where Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay people to marry five years and lbian weddgs have boosted the Massachetts enomy by about $111 ln, acrdg to a study by the Williams Instute of the Universy of upl have been gettg married Connecticut sce last year and Iowa sce April.

The New York State Assembly passed a gay marriage bill last month, but fac an uphill battle the state the vote New Hampshire, five out of six New England stat now have passed legislatn thorizg gay marriage, makg Rho Island wh s large Roman Catholic populatn the regn’s only hold-out. It was wonrful, and was historic, ” said Lda Murphy, 50, a llege admistrator om southern New Hampshire who married Donna Swartwout, her partner of 19 were among 150 people gathered the state pal of Conrd, temperatur of about 21 gre Fahrenhe (-6 Celsi), to wns the marriag of about a dozen gay or lbian upl by a jtice of the peace as the New Year Hampshire passed s law June amid an emotnal natnal bate.

NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY-MARRIAGE BILL

CONCORD, New Hampshire (Rters) - New Hampshire’s Senate passed a bill on Wednday that would legalize same-sex marriage after an amendment was add that allows clergy to cle to marry gay Papo (R) and her partner Amber Weiss display their weddg rgs after exchangg weddg vows at Cy Hall on the first full day of legal same-sex marriag San Francis, California June 17, 2008.

The Democrat has not dited whether he will sign or veto the bill, but has exprsed opposn to the bill passed the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ on March 26 but looked set for near certa feat the Senate before the amendment, which appeared to mollify some crics the Democratic-ntrolled last-mute chang to the legislatn would allow clergy to cle to marry homosexual upl and give upl the eedom to eher keep the words “bri” and “groom” on marriage licens, or e the word “spoe” stead.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS NEW HAMPSHIRE

Bee the Senate and Hoe passed separate versns, they mt rolve their differenc before the bill n go to the ernor, who 2007 signed a law regnizg same-sex civil unns, makg New Hampshire the fourth state to do has said the word marriage should be rerved for a tradnal heterosexual bill, which would take effect on January 1, also regniz out-of-state gay marriag and civil unns.

In 2004, after Massachetts’ top urt allowed gay upl to marry, New Hampshire passed a law that would not regnize gay marriag om out of electns 2006 signaled big polil and cultural chang, givg Democrats majori both chambers of the legislature for the first time sce 1874 a state that was long a stronghold of morate Hampshire state Senator Lou D’Allandro was the only Democrat to si wh 10 Republins agast the legislatn, which would refe marriage to clu same-sex upl. “This is a promise that is rpectful to both sis of this bate and meets our shared goal of equaly unr state law for all the people of New Hampshire, ” Reynolds Republins said discrimatn remas the bill, which Democrats said would ensure gay upl no longer received a “separate but equal” civil unn distctn.

GAY MARRIAGE

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch announced he will sign the bill for gay marriage NH, makg the sixth state legalizg marriage rights for same-sex Hampshire Governor John Lynch announced he will sign the bill for gay marriage NH, makg the sixth state legalizg marriage rights for same-sex upl.

“As your Print, I will do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology, ” Tmp said, beg the first GOP standard-bearer to elevate gay rights a nomatn addrs.

NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY MARRIAGE BILL

In 2009, state lawmakers voted to make New Hampshire the sixth state to legalize gay marriage – six years before would bee the law of the land wh the Supreme Court’s lg that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex upl unr the 14th Amendment. Asked about the most proment gay polician of the 2020 cycle, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Man says the Democrat “do a good job of not makg” his sexual orientatn the top issue his mpaign for his party’s printial nomatn. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

N.H. LAWMAKERS CONSIR ROLLG BACK GAY MARRIAGE

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

NEW HAMPSHIRE LATT STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGESTATE BE SIXTH TO ALLOW SAME-SEX {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY GIL KFMANJUNE 4, 2009/1:35 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY GIL KFMANJUNE 4, 2009 / 1:35 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW HAMPSHIRE LATT STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2009-06-04T17:35:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2009-06-04T17:35:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON WEDNDAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE BEME THE SIXTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY UPL TO WED. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE APPROVED REVISNS TO A SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE BILL, AND WAS PROMPTLY SIGNED BY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR JOHN LYNCH, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BILL WAS PASSED AFTER PROVISNS REQUTED BY LYNCH WERE ADD THAT ENSURED WOULD NOT FORCE RELIG ANIZATNS THAT OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TO PARTICIPATE CEREMONI CELEBRATG . THE ORIGAL BILL EXEMPTED MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY OM HAVG TO PERFORM SAME-SEX MARRIAG, BUT LYNCH SAID HE WOULD VETO UNLS LANGUAGE WAS ADD THAT WOULD ALSO EXEMPT RELIG GROUPS AND THEIR EMPLOYE OM HAVG TO TAKE PART SUCH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LYNCH HAD LONG SUPPORTED CIVIL UNNS FOR SAME-SEX UPL -- WHICH AFFORD SOME, BUT NOT ALL, OF THE RIGHTS AND RPONSIBILI AS MARRIAGE -- BUT HAD NOT ENDORSED MARRIAGE FOR GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT FOLLOWG THE SIGNG OF THE BILL, HE SAID THE ARGUMENTS HE HEARD FAVOR OF FULL MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR GAYS NVCED HIM THAT "A SEPARATE SYSTEM IS NOT AN EQUAL SYSTEM. ... TODAY, WE ARE STANDG UP FOR THE LIBERTI OF SAME-SEX UPL BY MAKG CLEAR THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE THE SAME RIGHTS, RPONSIBILI -- AND RPECT -- UNR NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW." NEW HAMPSHIRE PASSED A CIVIL-UNN LAW TWO YEARS AGO, AND THOSE UNNS WILL NOW NVERT TO MARRIAG ON JANUARY 1, 2011, IF THE UPL DON'T TAKE ACTN TO NVERT THEM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEW MARRIAGE LAW WILL TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1. GAY MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL IOWA APRIL, JOG MASSACHETTS, MAE, CONNECTICUT AND VERMONT AS STAT THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. NEW YORK IS ALSO NSIRG A BILL THAT WOULD LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE THAT STATE, AND GAY-RIGHTS ADVOT CALIFORNIA HAVE VOWED TO TRY AND PUT A REFERENDUM ON THE 2010 BALLOT AN EFFORT TO OVERTURN [ARTICLE ID="1598748"]PROPOSN 8[/ARTICLE], WHICH PASSED NOVEMBER AND REFED MARRIAGE THE STATE AS UNNS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEAD TO TO FD A MUNY WHERE YOU, YOUR IENDS AND YOUR FAVORE CELEBRI N GET RMED, GET HEARD AND TAKE ACTN ON THE ISSU THAT MATTER TO YOU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

— The New Hampshire Senate voted narrowly on Wednday to legalize same-sex marriage, pavg the way for the state to potentially bee the fifth the natn — and the third this month — to allow gay upl to Democratic-ntrolled Senate voted 13 to 11 favor of the bill, but only after a last-mute amendment strengthened language grantg legal protectns for relig groups and anizatns that do not want to perform or help rry out same-sex marriag. The origal bill exempted members of the clergy om havg to perform same-sex marriag, but Lynch said he would veto unls language was add that would also exempt relig groups and their employe om havg to take part such had long supported civil unns for same-sex upl -- which afford some, but not all, of the rights and rponsibili as marriage -- but had not endorsed marriage for gay a statement followg the signg of the bill, he said the arguments he heard favor of full marriage rights for gays nvced him that "a separate system is not an equal system....

NEW HAMPSHIRE SET FOR DIVISIVE GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

New York is also nsirg a bill that would legalize gay marriage that state, and gay-rights advot California have vowed to try and put a referendum on the 2010 ballot an effort to overturn [article id="1598748"]Proposn 8[/article], which passed November and refed marriage the state as unns between men and women to to fd a muny where you, your iends and your favore celebri n get rmed, get heard and take actn on the issu that matter to you most.

NEW HAMPSHIRE (Rters) - New Hampshire mov to the foreont of Ameri’s bate on gay marriage on Wednday when the state Senate will ci whether to approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage and send to the Papo (R) and her partner Amber Weiss display their weddg rgs after exchangg weddg vows at Cy Hall on the first full day of legal same-sex marriag San Francis, California June 17, 2008. If the senate spls at 12-12 or if a majory wants to keep alive, a motn to pass uld be bill, which would refe marriage to clu same-sex upl and make New Hampshire the fifth state the untry where gay marriage is legal, uld also end up tabled, where uld rema polil limbo. If pass, a likely veto by the ernor uld rail any Grane State gay marriage Governor John Lynch has not said whether he would veto the bill, he has exprsed opposn to gay marriage favor of the rights that civil unns provi to gay Mory Lear Peter Bragdon said he expects all 10 Republin senators to oppose .

AS GAY MARRIAGE GAS GROUND NATN, NEW HAMPSHIRE MAY REVOKE ITS LAW

”Among New England’s six stat, Massachetts, Connecticut and Vermont have legalized gay Mae, which has legalized some rights for gay upl, the state Senate Judiciary Commtee will vote on a gay-marriage bill on Tuday, and the full Senate is expected to weigh on the bill wh 10 days, said Marty Roe, natnal field director for the Human Rights Campaign, a Washgton-based gay rights advocy group is lookg to legislatn New York and New Jersey to advance gay marriage those stat, and is hopeful Rho Island, Maryland, Mnota, Washgton state and possibly Delaware uld be this month beme the only state outsi the New England regn to legalize gay California, gay marriage advot are hopg to overturn Proposn 8, the nstutnal amendment that banned gay marriage there, the state’s hight Hampshire nservative advot CPR Actn said the anti-gay marriage stance will be a wng issue for Republins state electns next executive director, Kev Smh, ced studi by the Universy of Virgia and The Wherspoon Instute of Prceton, New Jersey that show “children do bt when they have a mother and a father. 27, 2012As same-sex marriage supporters celebrate victori Washgton and Maryland this month, they are keepg a wary eye on New Hampshire, where lawmakers may soon vote to repeal the state’s two-year-old law allowg gay upl to wed.

”A New York Tim/CBS News poll nducted this month found that 40 percent of rponnts supported same-sex marriage, while 23 percent supported civil unns for gay upl and 31 percent said there should be no legal regnn of a gay uple’s New Hampshire beme the sixth state to approve same-sex marriage, 2009 — followg California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts and Vermont — was not an easy feat. The repeal bill would not validate those marriag, but would allow only civil unns for gay upl movg upl n currently marry Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and the District of Columbia.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GAY-MARRIAGE BILL MAY GET TANGLED UP SENATE

The issue will be on the May 8 primary ballot, not on the November general electn we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 11 of the New York edn wh the headle: As Gay Marriage Gas Ground Natn, New Hampshire May Revoke Its Law. The same thg happens 7, 2006: Constutnal amendments banng gay marriage are passed seven more 15, 2008: California Supreme Court strik down a state law banng same-sex marriage, and gay upl beg marryg a month 10, 2008: Connecticut Supreme Court legaliz same-sex 4, 2008: California voters approve Proposn 8, which bans gays and lbians om 3, 2009: Iowa Supreme Court legaliz same-sex 7, 2009: Vermont Legislature overris Gov.

Andrew Cuomo signs law legalizg same-sex marriage, more than doublg the number of Amerins livg gay marriage 7, 2012: A feral appeals urt upholds the lg that clared California's Proposn 8 13, 2012: Washgton Gov. Mart O'Malley signs law legalizg gay marriage, if voters go along 9, 2012: Print Obama be the first stg print to announce his support for same-sex 31, 2012: A feral appeals urt New England upholds lower urt lgs agast the Defense of Marriage 6, 2012: A feral district judge New York be the fifth to le agast the Defense of Marriage Act.

Uned Stat, eventually will reach the Supreme 18, 2012: A feral appeals urt upholds the New York judge's lg agast the Defense of Marriage 6, 2012: Voters approve nstutnal amendments permtg gay marriage Mae, Maryland and Washgton 29.