Last week New Hampshire state Rep. David Bates (R) proposed an amendment to his marriage equality repeal bill (HB 427) that would reinstate civil unions. Despite vehemently opposing civil unions in the past, the Diocese of Manchester, which constitutes “The Catholic Church in New Hampshire”, is supporting Rep. Bates’s amendment. In addition to repealing same [...]

H/T Herb x 10 Last month, the anti-equality New Hampshire legislator Rep. David Bates (R-Rockingham) introduced bills to strip the Granite State of marriage equality.  HB 1590 would repeal the recently-passed marriage equality law, and Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution (CACR) 28 proposes an anti-gay amendment to the New Hampshire constitution. Considering that the legislature just [...]