Civil Unions To Become Gay Marriage in New Hampshire?
Well it looks like debate is going to open up about gay marriage again:
The legislator who sponsored New Hampshire’s civil union bill will push next year to legalize same-sex marriage.
But Portsmouth Democrat Rep. Jim Splaine will face a fight, as those opposed to civil unions vow to try to pare the law down.Splaine said civil unions give same-sex couples about 90 percent of the benefits and obligations that heterosexual couples get through marriage. He said same-sex marriage is the only way for same-sex couples to attain full equality. Splaine described the bill as necessary to propel debate.
I’m not sure it’s a good idea to bring this up again already. Civil unions seems to have worked out well and I think it might be a better idea to let it settle for a few more years before pushing for gay marriage here in New Hampshire.
If you take a look at the reaction in California to what I think was a misguided attempt to push for marriage too soon, it’s not a pretty picture. In fact it’s a very, very ugly picture indeed. I think that New Hampshire will eventually have gay marriage but it ought to do so at a pace that isn’t going to bring about a nasty counter-reaction from the other side.
In the case of gay marriage, I think slow and steady wins the race ultimately. But then I’m sort of practical like that and thus I’d make a poor activist on issues like this.
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I’d tend to agree. The California Backlash and Counter-Backlash have set things back years in that state, and quite possibly nationally.
Where I disagree is whether you’d make a good activist – I would contend you’d make the *very best* kind, one that creates sufficient cognitive dissonance that you can slip your points in whilst they are still bedazzled (Pro-Gay, Gun-Owning, Pro-Self-Defense, Same-Sex marriage advocate).
Best of all, you’d bend the brains of many in the LGBT community on pro2A issues…a sort of two brain bends for the price of one effect that offers both a charming efficiency and a twisted pleasure observing the double takes in both test groups.
Mwhahahaha
Well we will have to see how things turn out in California. I do not like the courts being involved in these kinds of issues as it usually seems to make things worse and no consensus on a political or societal level seems possible if things are based solely on a court ruling.
Me as an activist? Heh. Thanks. But I’d rather blog than campaign. At least on a blog you don’t have to sit through boring meetings.
[...] December 1, 2008 · No Comments The ink is not yet dry on the certified returns from California’s Prop 8 election (oh wait, did they actually get certified? I was busy trying to make sure my local church wasn’t burned down by al-Gayda and Gavin Newsom’s cronies in the Castro district), and alread New Hampshire’s Jim Splaine is going to try and push through a Gay Marriage Bill. [...]