Welcome to 2011, the year in which we’ll have to prove we still know how to play defense. Take, for example, New Hampshire, where state lawmakers have already filed four draft bills seeking to repeal same-sex marriage, which was legalized in 2008. It’s unclear how the bills would affect the 1,500 same-sex couples who married last year, but if you’ve always dreamed of tying the knot in the Granite State, you may want to hurry up and do it. The Telegraph reports:
While some House members work to craft the Fiscal Year 2012 budget, others could work through the spring to shape the repeal legislation, sending a bill to a vote by the end of the legislative session in July, said state Rep. Leo Pepino, a Manchester Republican, who introduced one of the proposals.
With a 297 to 103 advantage in the House, and a 19 to 5 divide in the Senate, Republicans could have the two-thirds majority necessary to override Gov. John Lynch, who has promised to veto any repeal bill.
In 2008, the Democratic-led legislature passed the marriage law with 198 votes in the House and 14 in the Senate, becoming the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
“I think we have the votes (to repeal),” Pepino said last week. “We have a lot of really good conservatives and a good conservative doesn’t believe in gay marriage. … It’s a matter of ethics.”
If gay marriage in New Hampshire is revealed, is repealed that means nothing but another case for Boies and
Ted Olsen. Prop 8 in California may never see the Supreme Court due to the the issue of the legal standing of
Prop 8’s defendants.
It has to cross these people’s minds that they are taking away rights. It has to cross their minds that there is no way they can undo the marriages that already occurred. (CA’s courts speak volumes on this. Though CA is a different state, the same property rights and other rights apply to trying to take away valid marriages. You just can’t do it.)
It’ll be interesting to see how the 9th Cir. rules on the Prop 8 case. While it won’t be binding on NH, the same arguments to strike down Prop 8 could be used to strike down a NH repeal law.
When will these people move on to other issues!
Gawd, these people are dreary. I too wonder when they will move on to other issues, but I think they are too narrow to take a broader view of the world. They can focus on only a few prejudices at any one time.
How can they just give them the right to marry and take it away like that? Those who are eager to repeal it should think twice about what kind of message that it sends to the rest of the country. You can’t just tear families apart like this, they should be ashamed of themselves