Opponents of same-sex marriage believe that if a Democrat-domated Statehoe uld vote gay marriage, a Republin-domated one may be able to vote out. A bill to repeal the law has the backg of some top lears the GOP-ntrolled Legislature, but rcdg rights is never easy.
Contents:
- NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY-MARRIAGE BILL
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS NEW HAMPSHIRE
- CORNERSTONE ACTN PH FOR REPEAL OF NH “GAY MARRIAGE” LAW
- N.H. LAWMAKERS CONSIR ROLLG BACK GAY MARRIAGE
NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASS GAY-MARRIAGE BILL
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 upl. * nh gay marriage *
John Lynch promptly signed the legislatn, makg the state the sixth to let gay upl wed. But groups that advote for gay rights, some of whom poured money to the state recent months, said the law was yet another step toward mastream Ameri acceptg same-sex marriage. Giuliano, print of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, “our culture is movg to equaly.
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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.
The extra year allows time for a formal marriage ma big roads this month when, a sgle week, Iowa and Vermont joed Massachetts and Connecticut allowg gay upl to legally wed. Mae’s Hoe and Senate uld vote on the measure as early as next California, gay marriage advot are hopg to overturn Proposn 8, the 2008 nstutnal amendment that banned gay marriage there, the state’s hight urt. 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. He’s also gay. In this stallment, we vis the early votg state of New Hampshire, where a gay Republin is challengg his party on s same-sex marriage stance.
CORNERSTONE ACTN PH FOR REPEAL OF NH “GAY MARRIAGE” LAW
As a gay Republin, Man fi the natnal pattern.
Durg the 2016 printial mpaign, Tmp st himself as a champn of gay rights. In his speech acceptg the Republin printial nomatn that year, for stance, he nounced the mass shootg that had killed 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando the prev month. “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.
“The Tmp-Pence Whe Hoe is the most anti-LGBTQ Whe Hoe morn history, ” says Charlotte Clymer of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt gay-rights anizatn. In fendg the Print, Tmp’s supporters pot to his pledge to end the spread of HIV/AIDS a and his appotment of a gay man, Richard Grenell, to serve as US ambassador to Germany. Grenell also is overseeg the admistratn’s global effort to crimalize homosexualy nearly 70 untri.
N.H. LAWMAKERS CONSIR ROLLG BACK GAY MARRIAGE
“We met the same way all gay people New Hampshire meet: onle, ” Freas says. “People feel like that if you are gay, you have to be a Democrat.
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. In 2018, the state barred licensed therapists and mental health unselors om practicg so-lled gay nversn therapy for mors, one of jt 14 stat to do so, acrdg to the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights.
That same year, state voters elected Democrat Chris Pappas, New Hampshire’s first member of Congrs who publicly intifi as gay. (This year, another gay man -- Matt Mayberry, Man’s vice chairman the New Hampshire Log Cab group -- is one of the ndidat seekg the GOP nomatn for Pappas’ seat. 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.