Bill to allow gay marriage in Pennsylvania to be introduced in the House

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Bill to allow gay marriage in Pennsylvania to be introduced in the House

One day after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its rulings on gay marriage, two state House Democrats said Thursday that they will introduce a bill that would allow same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania.

State Reps. Brian Sims and Steve McCarter, both from the Philadelphia area, say they will push the bill in the state House of Representatives. Sims is the first openly gay lawmaker ever elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

Pennsylvania state law prohibits same-sex marriage. However, Sims and McCarter want to take a shot at toppling that law.

"LGBT Pennsylvanians are seeing their neighbors in New York, Maryland and Delaware, among other states, now qualify for the approximately 1,000 federal rights and benefits that come with civil marriage and they are increasingly asking why they don't have those same rights, as well as the state rights and benefits," Sims said in the statement.

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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/06/bill_to_allow_gay_marriage_in.html#/0

[Lugnut]

1. This is great news!

How they'll get a Republican-controlled Puritanical legislature to support this is beyond me. If this bill makes it through that process good old One-Term Tom is sure to veto it.

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