VICTORY: Wyoming Defeats Domestic Partnership Bill That Could Have Threatened Marriage
from the NOM blog:
A shout-out once again to our marriage supporters in Wyoming (the “Equality State”) — yesterday your representatives in Cheyenne defeated a domestic partnership bill that could have threatened marriage by a vote of 35-24. Courts have used domestic partnerships and civil unions as an excuse to challenge laws protection marriage:
A bill that would have would have allowed same-sex couples in Wyoming to create domestic partnerships carrying most of the legal rights of marriage died Wednesday on a close vote in the House of Representatives.
… Opponents warned that the bill threatened to open the state to legal action seeking to force it to approve same-sex marriage.
Rep. Mark Baker, R-Rock Springs, spoke against the measure, saying: “We all know that this is about same-sex marriage and civil unions.” (AP)
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