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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com January 21, 2011
Marriage in Maryland by April?
By Julie Bolcer
Maryland advocates and a leading lawmaker projected confidence that a
marriage equality bill could pass the state general assembly by early April,
while they also predicted success for a gender identity antidiscrimination
measure.
“We’re in a really great position to be advancing a marriage bill and an
anti-discrimination bill,” said Cameron Tolle, online organizer for Freedom
to Marry, which cohosted a conference call for bloggers Friday afternoon
with Equality Maryland to discuss the time line and prospects for the
measures. The call also included state senator Jamie Raskin, lead sponsor of
the marriage equality bill introduced in the senate this week and a member
of the judicial proceedings committee, where the measure could be heard as
soon as February 1.
Maryland is one of three states, along with New York and Rhode Island,
poised to achieve marriage equality this year, with favorable conditions in
state legislatures and governors intent on signing bills into law. Based on
the Friday call, the Mid-Atlantic state neighboring Washington, D.C., could
be the first to reach the finish line.
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, executive director of Equality Maryland, detailed a
carefully coordinated and rapidly unfolding time line in which the marriage
equality bill would be introduced in the house of delegates this Tuesday,
followed by a hearing in the key senate committee the first week of February
. She predicted the full senate would vote on the measure, known as Senate
Bill 116, before the end of next month.
“There is a will on the part of leadership in the senate to have this bill
done with before the budget pieces begin in the senate and that starts on
February 21,” she said. “There is a will to have this all done.”
The rush to pass marriage equality before contending with the economy
differs from conventional wisdom about New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and
lawmakers are expected to address the state’s $10 billion budget deficit
before taking a second vote on marriage equality, which failed in the senate
in 2009. Compared to many other states, the economic picture appears less
devastating in Maryland, where unemployment hovers at the relatively low 7.4
%. Democrats also picked up two state senate seats in Maryland last year,
bucking the national Republican trend. | g********d
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摘要：
1。三大州今年把SAME-SEX MARRIAGE提到议事日程上来，NY，RI，MD。NY要先解决经
济问题，MD为什么敢先提MARRIAGE？因为MD失业率比较低。这也是为什么中期选举的时
候MD反全国其道，民主党席位反而增加了。
2。民主党把持的议会和民主党州长对通过SAME-SEX MARRIAGE有信心，他们甚至有阻
止共和党FILLIBUSTER的票数。
3。一旦SAME-SEX MARRIAGE通过， The Maryland Catholic Conference， National
Organization for Marriage and Protect Maryland Marriage 肯定要想法在2012
公投推翻，但是“There’s a history in Maryland of keeping social policies
off the ballot,” 也就是说公投提案都不一定能上选票。［从这篇文章里看不出为什
么］曾经有人想挑战 the addition of sexual orientation to the human rights
law未果［怎么未果？］ |
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