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From The Bay Area Reporter:

Want to support a state that still respects your right to marry? Massachusetts is calling.

It has been legal for same-sex couples to marry in the Bay State since 2004. In July, Massachusetts repealed an arcane law that had prohibited out-of-state couples from getting married there. Unfortunately, Proposition 8, which passed November 4, states that only a marriage between a man and a woman will be recognized in California, so you shouldn’t expect any legal rights when you return home after marrying in Massachusetts or Connecticut, which legalized gay marriage in October.

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Gay Marriage Wars: Here We Go Again

From clarksvillonline.com:

After nearly two years of barely a peep from the lips of both Republican and Democratic campaigns on the issue of gay marriage, it appears to be roaring back with a vengeance. Just when I had the (rather ignorant, it seems) hope that the American public would finally be over their need to use the gay community as political target practice, alas.

The often-fiery debate of gay marriage isn’t back by accident either. After dual court wins in California and Pennsylvania, gay couples have two more states in which they can exchange vows. Those same rulings, however, have brought with them the extra baggage of rage and irrational paranoia — usually from those to whom the issue should matter the least.

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Family Institute of Connecticut Fighting Court Ruling

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to marry.  Opponents of gay marriage are looking towards a ballot question in to block the unions.

This is a last ditch effort by “Christian” groups to force delegates to rewrite the state’s constitution. It’s a long, drawn out process that would cost millions, and it’s on the ballot this November.

“This is our one opportunity for the people to have a voice, for the people to be heard, for them to decide whether marriage will be protected as between a man and a woman,” said Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut.

It was reported on GayAgenda.com, last Friday, the state Supreme Court ruled that Connecticut would be the third state, after California and Massachusetts, to allow same-sex marriage. The court said Connecticut’s 2005 civil union law doesn’t give same-sex couples the same status as married heterosexual couples.

Cali Surpasses Mass in Gay Marriages

According to a new study from UCLA’s Williams Institute for the study of law and sexual orientation, there have been more same-sex marriages in the state of California in the past three months than Massachusetts has had in three years.

The study released earlier this week, shows approximately 11,000 same-sex couples have married in California between June 17, when the marriages become legal, and Sept. 17. Five counties, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Riverside and Alameda holds records for 80% of those marriages.

The Williams institute, the nation’s only research firm who’s primary focus is the study of law and policy as it pertains to sexual orientation, also released research findings that show there are over 109,000 same-sex couples in California. Many of those couples are raising the 52,000 children reported to be living in those households.

NY’s Gay Marriage Suite Dismissed

The first law suite against the decision of New York’s governor to recognize same-sex marriages from other states has been thrown out of court. The presiding judge has dismissed the challenge stating the policy is allowable by law because it stands for equality and fairness.

New York state Supreme Court Judge, Lucy Billings wrote in her decision that a same-sex couple’s decision to marry represents “a personal expression of emotional devotion, support and interdependence and a public commitment. With that validity, they expect equal treatment with other married couples.”

With this ruling, thousands of gay and lesbian New York couples are expected marry in Massachusetts, where it recently became law that out-of-state gay couples were allowed to marry. The Alliance Defense Fund, which is the Christian organization backed by several Republicans, who brought suit against the New York decision said it would appeal. Many gay-rights and civil-liberties groups are celebrating the ruling as strengthening legal support for same-sex couples.

Governor David Paterson, who signed the measure allowing recognition into law, commented it was “a wise and fair determination.”

Same-sex couples are still not able to marry in New York and the state’s Supreme court has upheld that only the Legislature has the authority to make that change.

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