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Update: Delaware Becomes 11th State to Legalize Same-sex
Staff Reports DOVER, Del. — The Delaware state Senate on Tuesday will consider a marriage equality bill in a bid to make Delaware the the eleventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. The scheduled vote in the state’s Democrat-controlled Senate follows the General Assembly’s passage of the bill late last month. Governor Jack Markell has vowed to sign the bill [...]
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Latest poll finds uptick in both support, opposition to same-sex marriage
Staff Reports Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Courttook up the issue of same-sex marriagein two highly publicized cases, a majority of Americans continue to say they support same-sex marriage, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this week. The survey of 1,000 adults showed 53 percent of respondents were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, which [...]
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Jon Tester: Another U.S. Senator previously opposed to gay marriage reverses course
Staff Reports HELENA, Mont. — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana who has previously opposed same-sex marriage, says he now supports marriage equality for gays and lesbian couples. Tester released a brief statement on FacebookTuesday, shortly after theU.S. Supreme Court heard arguments overCalifornia’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their [...]
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Delaware NAACP calls on state lawmakers to pass marriage equality
Staff Reports WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delawarechapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is calling on Delaware state lawmakers to pass a marriage equality bill. Richard Smith, President of the Delaware NAACP, says, in a new video released by Equality Delaware, a statewide LGBT advocacy group, that “our gay brothers and sisters should [...]
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‘Freedom to Marry’ to invest $2 million in state marriage efforts this year
By LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports Freedom to Marry, a national marriage equality advocacy organization, announced Thursday it plans to raise and invest $2 million through its “Win More States Fund,” aimed at passing marriage bills in several states across the country. In the first wave of contributions for 2013, Freedom to Marry said it will invest $800,000 in six states where marriage [...]
