{"id":7856,"date":"2009-06-03T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2009-06-03T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:31:51","slug":"new-hampshire-votes-to-end-exclusionary-marriage-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7856","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Votes To End Exclusionary Marriage Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another state recognizes same-sex marriage. From Nan Hunter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In what must have been a long day in Manchester, both chambers of the New Hampshire legislature passed a bill<\/a> containing the compromise language worked out in committee to protect the religious liberty rights of gay marriage opponents. Governor Lynch also supported the bill, and earlier had announced that he would sign it as soon as the legislative action concluded. The new law will take effect in January 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My main response is: YAY!!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Congrats to everyone in New Hampshire. And, really, everyone in the whole country, which has become incrementally more just today than it was yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The fact that so few lawsuits have come up in states that already have civil union or equal marriage laws, convinces me that the “religious exemption” aspects of such bills will have very little practical effect. Few if any same-sex couples even want <\/em>to get married in churches that don’t accept them. If this is the compromise that gets gay marriage bills passed, then I favor it.<\/p>\n

According to the AP story<\/a> (via<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The revised bill added a sentence specifying that all religious organizations, associations or societies have exclusive control over their religious doctrines, policies, teachings and beliefs on marriage.<\/p>\n

It also clarified that church-related organizations that serve charitable or educational purposes are exempt from having to provide insurance and other benefits to same sex spouses of employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Benefits are another form of pay, and giving churches the right to pay some queer employees less is an expression of second-class citizenship for queers. (If a church wanted the right to refuse spousal benefits to Jewish or atheist employees, would people be so quick to find that reasonable?)<\/p>\n

But I’d rather have equal marriage for same-sex couples, and then work on fine-tuning this aspect later, than not have gay marriage at all. ((Of course, I’d rather have single-pay health care, and get employers out of the business of making health care decisions like this altogether.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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