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Another U.S. State for equality.
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From Daily Kos this morning.

Looks promising in Oregon for same sex marriage. Now if only California's shameful prop 8 could be overturned soon.

• OR Ballot: Exciting news! Activists in Oregon have begun a drive to put same-sex marriage legalization on the ballot in the Beaver State for the 2014 elections. What makes this effort unusual is that if it's successful, Oregon would be the first state to overturn a constitutional ban on gay marriage, which voters approved by over 13 points in 2004. But obviously, the landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade, and a recent PPP poll shows sentiment completely reverses, with Oregonians now approving of marriage equality at a 54-40 clip.

In any event, organizers need to first submit 1,000 signatures in order to undergo a preliminary review by the Secretary of State. Once that passes muster, they'll need an additional 116,284 signatures—and remember, Oregon is home to fewer than four million people, so we're talking something like 3 percent of the entire population here (and more than that for registered voters). The push will be spearheaded by a group called Oregon United for Marriage, under the auspices of another organization, Basic Rights Oregon. They will certainly have a lot of work ahead of them in the months to come, as opponents are already gearing up to thwart this effort, but after last year's successes at the ballot box in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, the momentum is firmly on the side of the good guys this time.
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#2
The more states that recognize marriage equality, the more Congress will have to reevaluate it's own stance. This is a great step for a liberal state, too.
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#3
This is great news! I for one welcome the day when federal lawmakers recognize gay marriage.
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#4
I vaguely recall (this being about 8 years ago) that many in OR were displeased when this passed (and I had a close friend living in Portland at the time) because they thought they were actually banning pedophiles from teaching at school or some such. Once again the "morally superior" Christian fundies bore false witness and lied through their teeth (because the 10 commandments are for posting so all can see, not obeying by people who can pray forgiveness whenever it suits them, or as one of their stickers goes, "Not perfect, just forgiven") and, once again, voters didn't read their pamphlets before voting and only went by insinuations they picked up from deceptive political ads. After it passed the Christian Right then crowed about its passing and saying what people wanted and Oregon voters were like, "Wait, what? You mean I wasn't voting against pedophiles?"
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#5
Wow. Something I wasn't expecting to live to see. Gay marriage in the states. Nor was I expecting live long enough to see a black man as president, nor a woman.

I am struck at how much the world has changed in the past 20 years... for the good in these cases. It gives me hope that the future will be better and brighter.
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#6
I'll believe I might see real equality when I see it in the southern and Bible Belt states and places you don't go if you are the wrong color or don't have money. When the kind of people that live in those places say gays can marry and people that aren't white can be their neighbors then I'll believe I might see some equality.
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#7
Minnesota is on the fast track to legalizing marriage! Could happen within a year or 2,
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#8
Colorado
likely will enact a domestic partnership situation into law next month.
Than again the state has a DOMA situation in its state constitution, gift from those republican years. This effectively stalls out any legislation for SS marriage.
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#9
Ive never really understood why the USA don't harmonise laws and statutes across all states.

Is there a historical reason why there is not a single set of laws for everyone (like the Constitution which I believe is applicable to every state?)

ObW
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OlderButWiser Wrote:Ive never really understood why the USA don't harmonize laws and statutes across all states ...
the gay rights thingy is somewhat close to what the Women's Suffrage and or African Americans went through. After enough states changed their individual constitutions the federal courts stepped in to make it uniform. On the two above examples some states, primarily located in the south east never changed and the federal law over wrote their local state constitution(s) by default. All this so you can still be a red neck gun loving hick in Texas.

OlderButWiser Wrote:] ... Is there a historical reason why there is not a single set of laws for everyone (like the Constitution which I believe is applicable to every state?)
to some degree each state is separate. The federal courts are said to step in when federal benefits are effected. Free flow of commerce is effected or they just do it.
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