Breaking - NH Governor Lynch to sign marriage equality bill - with additional religious protections

[FreeState]

Yeah - make that 6 states with equal marriage rights!

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Breaking - NH Governor Lynch to sign marriage equality bill - with additional religious protections

It's happening again -- with minor changes -- Gov. John Lynch will make it six states (CT, IA, ME, MA, VT are the others) with marriage equality.... Here is Lynch's statement in all of its glory; he is looking for additional cover, but as you will see, he only wants the bill to reflect the same religious protection clauses of the Vermont and Connecticut legislation.

Edit for link: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/10984/nh-governor-lynch-to-sign-on-to-marriage-equality-with-additional-religious-protections

[MineralMan]

1. Most excellent....six down, 44 to go...

[Bluerthanblue]

2. YESS!!! good to have some

positive news to celebrate.

K&R this wonderful news!!!

:hi:

[FreeState]

3. Heres to hoping NY, NJ, and CA join them soon! n/t

[ieoeja]

4. K&R

[nichomachus]

5. Yeah -- because so many churches are "forced" to perform marriages

This is a total bullshit argument -- and is a way to force it back to the legislature so the religious right can threaten the lawmakers some more.

This only perpetuates the right-wing lie that churches will be forced to marry people they don't want to marry -- as if armed soldiers show up now to force Catholics to marry Jewish couples, or for them to marry divorced couples.

Churches are perfectly free to set their own rules as to who they will or won't marry. Any claim to the contrary is just crap.