Equality!

[MRossW]

its where i live. I am sooooo excited.

You should be! Congratulations!

[ChadCoxRox]

its where i live. I am sooooo excited.

OH LORDY don't you DARE get married!!!! yet. To hot to handle much less house!

[MRossW]

So the PA Governor says the state will NOT appeal the ruling! Great news! Just wish he would say it's a waste of taxpayer money so certain other states (you hear me, North Carolina, Virginia et al) would just give it up.

[ChadCoxRox]

[Iceblink]

So the PA Governor says the state will NOT appeal the ruling! Great news! Just wish he would say it's a waste of taxpayer money so certain other states (you hear me, North Carolina, Virginia et al) would just give it up.

If not by court order, Virginia, as well as the states of the Midwest (at least the Great Lakes area of the region), and Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado will do it by a vote of the people. As for North Carolina and the rest of the South, I don't see that happening yet.

[happyschizoid]

The world is slowly doing what's right, and it is wonderful.
It just saddens me that it does so at such a slow pace.

[ddd]

[cftxp]

It might help that a lot of them are college professors, but everyone I've talked to recently about gay rights responded at least positively, and I live in Texas - so I'm pretty sure we'll see it here and I hope we do so in the rest of the world as well.



But she sums it up pretty well too.

[MRossW]

If not by court order, Virginia, as well as the states of the Midwest (at least the Great Lakes area of the region), and Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado will do it by a vote of the people. As for North Carolina and the rest of the South, I don't see that happening yet.

But here in North Carolina, the Episcopal Church has in the past couple days joined the UCC, the Jewish faith, and a liberal branch of the Baptists (I learn something new every day) in the suit against the state saying that the constitutional ban violates their freedom of religion because it bans those churches and synagogues from performing marriages in accordance with their practices and beliefs. No idea when that suit will actually surface in a court though. I think that's the best chance of NC repeal.

[Iceblink]

But here in North Carolina, the Episcopal Church has in the past couple days joined the UCC, the Jewish faith, and a liberal branch of the Baptists (I learn something new every day) in the suit against the state saying that the constitutional ban violates their freedom of religion because it bans those churches and synagogues from performing marriages in accordance with their practices and beliefs. No idea when that suit will actually surface in a court though. I think that's the best chance of NC repeal.

That will be by court order not a vote of the people. In 2012 North Carolina voted 61% to 39% for a gay marriage ban, the same year that three other states voted to give gays and lesbians the right to marry and by a greater margin than many other states had voted for a ban many years earlier, states that in polls in 2012 were showing people had changed their minds and now supported marriage equality.