Politics

The wave continues…The Maryland House has just passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage. Next is the Senate, which appears to be a slam dunk and then the Governor, who has vocally supported the legislation. The Maryland House of Delegates needed 71 votes to pass the bill. Whether the chamber had the requisite votes was […]

Last year the Obama administration caused a controversy when they announced they would no longer defend certain parts of the Defense Of Marriage Act in federal court, saying to do so would be unconstitutional. Now, in a similar move, the administration has declared it will no longer defend in court, laws which deny legally married

Just as he said he’d do, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has vetoed the state’s gay marriage bill. Christie has stated he believes this issue should be left up to the voters. The veto came a day after the state Assembly passed the bill. The state Senate had passed it on Monday. Christie, a Republican

It’s official in Washington State. Governor Gregoire signed the same sex marriage bill into law. Couples won’t be able to marry until early June, but the law makes Washington the SEVENTH U.S. state to legalize same sex marriage. Opponents filed Referendum 73 Monday afternoon. If they collect the more than 120,577 valid voter signatures by

Only a day after the historic ruling in California that Prop 8 is unconstitutional, the Washington House has followed the Senate in passing the legalization of same sex marriage. The Governor has confirmed she’ll sign it, making Washington State the 7th state to legalize same sex marriage. The action comes a day after a federal

Courtesy Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly

Prop 8 has been ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Courtesy Bilerico Project The highly anticipated Proposition 8 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has been released. The court has ruled in favor of LGBT couples on the matters of the constitutionality of Proposition 8. The three judges who heard the appeal, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Judge Michael