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Delaware marriage bill advances

gaywrites:

A Delaware House committee voted yesterday to advance a bill that would legalize marriage equality in the state.

After a 90-minute hearing, the committee voted 4-1 to advance the bill to the full House, where it could come to a vote as early as Tuesday. Same-sex civil unions took effect in Delaware in January 2012.

“House Bill 75 extends the freedom to marry to all Delawareans who are in a loving, committed relationship,” state Rep. Melanie George Smith (D-Bear,) who introduced HB 75 last Thursday, said at the beginning of the hearing. “This legislation will respect and recognize with equal dignity all couples who are in a loving, committed relationship.” …

Rehoboth Beach resident Fay Jacobs, who has been with her partner for 35 years, urged the committee to “end our long run as second class citizens.” Richard Smith, president of the Delaware State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP,) described nuptials for gays and lesbians as a “civil right.”

“It’s an affirmative right for people to be together,” he said.

One step at a time. 

Hooray! I’m trying to find work in Philly and make Claymont, DE my new home. So this is exciting news.

ourspiritnow:

travelerfromanantiqueland:

always…..always..post this 

“Christian leaders stand on our soil and say ‘gay marriage’ has never occurred here. Over 130 tribes in every region of North America performed millions of same-sex marriages for hundreds of years. Their statements are both hateful and ignorant. Your ‘homosexual’ was our ‘Two Spirit’ people… and we considered them sacred.”

Hundreds of years of love. ourspiritnow

Right on.

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