Delaware’s marriage equality bill (HB75) seems close to final passage, with a floor vote scheduled in the Senate on Tuesday, May 7.  The House has already passed the bill and Governor Jack Markell, who introduced it in early April, has promised to sign it into law. National Organization for Marriage has apparently expected to lose the [...]

Shun your gay loved ones on their most important day or you and God may end up on the rocks.  Worse yet, there may be talk in the village.  From Thomas Tobin, Catholic Bishop of Providence: At this moment of cultural change, it is important to affirm the teaching of the Church, based on God’s [...]

Apparently the joke is on anyone who gave time or treasure to National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island, the group that has spent the past five years trying to block passage of Rhode Island’s new marriage equality law.  Here’s what NOM-RI’s executive director Chris Plante told New York Times after Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the [...]

“To our LGBT family members, friends, and neighbors: at long last, you are free to marry the person you love.“  With these words, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the Rhode Island marriage equality bill into law on Thursday evening. The signing ceremony, held on the front steps of the state capitol, was celebrated by [...]

National Organization for Marriage has sent some pathetic emails before, but the smell of desperation is particularly pungent in this latest. On the heels of losing marriage equality ballot measures last year in Washington, Minnesota, Maine and Maryland, and marriage equality legislative efforts in France and Rhode Island this year (so far), NOM has nothing [...]

The excitement is palpable in Rhode Island tonight as marriage equality advocates look towards Thursday, when Gov. Lincoln Chafee will sign the marriage equality bill into law. Gov. Chafee just tweeted this invitation to those who wish to witness the birth of the 10th marriage equality state: All are welcome to attend Thursday’s planned #MarriageEquality [...]

In a scathing blog post written the day after Rhode Island became the tenth marriage equality state, the radical-right anti-gay organization MassResistance takes National Organization for Marriage to task for “drop[ping] the ball” in the effort to keep marriage discriminatory: … We admire a lot of what the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) does for [...]

In the wake of major marriage equality victories this week in France, Rhode Island, Delaware and Nevada, marriage discrimination purveyor National Organization for Marriage is asking supporters to send them money.  From yesterday’s email with the subject line of “We’ve Got Work To Do…”: … I want to assure you: NOM is NOT giving up [...]

Love has made New England complete!  Today the Rhode Island Senate passed the marriage equality bill (S 38 sub A), making Rhode Island the 10th state nationally and the last in New England to allow all couples the freedom to marry. The bill was passed by a strongly bipartisan, overwhelming majority of 26-12. An amendment [...]

Today was a good day for love and equality, with final passage of a marriage equality law by France‘s Parliament, the Rhode Island Senate Committee on Judiciary sending a marriage equality bill to the Senate for a floor vote, and passage of a marriage equality bill by the Delaware House. A good day for love [...]