Legislators State moves to legalise marriage for gay couples
Flies against the prevailing winds policies, California State legislature is considering the introduction of legislation legalizing this week that marriage to homosexual couples.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said he decided his promotion of equal marriage “- as Congress and at least 10 countries are to discuss the ban on marriage for homosexuals and lesbians - because he believes that the Well doing things, if the game stokes poor.
“It was never an ideal time, the rights of citizens, but it is not always a bad moment,” said Leno, one of five gay or lesbian members in the California legislature. “For those of ‘us in the short term the rights of citizens Stick, it is a hot topic.
While Leno wants more rights for same-sex couples, the national trend in the opposite direction.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has recently been the ruling paves the way for the nation, the state has sanctioned the first gay marriage, lawmakers in many countries want to avoid a ripple effect.
A national survey released this week found that 60 percent of respondents against the legalization of homosexual marriage in their country. Few, the legislator tent, as Leno, a call to the 31 per cent said they would be such an approach.
In New York, two legislators, a bill last March, so that lesbians and gay couples to marry, but the action has languished. And, after promoting a marriage bill for three years pairs, gay rights advocates in Connecticut decided this year not to press the issue again on the right.
“We are always focused than ever on the first marriage, but because of what happened in Massachusetts feel that our best strategy is that the situation itself,” said Anne Stanback, President of Love Makes a family, a group lobbying in Connecticut. “We assume that couples from Connecticut, Massachusetts wish to marry, and we will see whether these marriages are recognized here.
Leno’s action, it is expected that up to 20 co-sponsors, a modification of a section of California’s family code that defines marriage as “a personal relationship of a civil contract between a man and a woman” to read “between two persons”.
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