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03.27.2009 1:04pm EDT
Two gay victories swept Delaware Thursday, when the state Senate defeated a constitutional ban on gay marriage and the state House passed a bill prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Delaware already has a law limiting marriage to a man and a woman, and Senators expressed concern that the constitutional ban was unneccessary.“I believe that the constitution … should be not a place where rights are restricted but where there is a positive affirmation of the rights of all of the people of Delaware,” Sen. Brian Bushweller (D) told DelawareOnline.
The anti-discrimination bill, which prohibits prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment, public works contracting, public accommodations and insurance, has passed the House three times before, always dying in the Senate in committee.
Because of changes in procedural rules, however, activists are hopeful that this time, the bill will make it to a vote on the Senate floor.
Good news from DE
IT WAS A NAIL BITER-FINALLY-DELAWARE STEPS INTO THE 21 ST CENTURY-BUT WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO,,,,,,,,,,
Now if the PA legislature passes their anti-discrimination bill this month, then the Northeast will be moving in the right direction.
Pro Gay Enlightenment is spreading.California is next!
“Delaware votes for gay rights”
…and why does the public get to vote on rights that ALL Americans should already HAVE by law?
This wasn’t a vote for “gay” rights. This was a vote for CIVIL rights! We have to hit hard on the fact that gays are American citizens too and demand that “equality” that they want to ladle out in teaspoon sized portions to minorities.
Congratultions Delaware, but until we can make this a Federal thing it rings pretty hollow.
Voting to allow gay marriage and end sexual orientation discrimination and hate crimes, is not ‘pro-Gay’ agenda, it is a sad commentary on the state of the UNITED STATES. More than 225 years after its ‘founding’ there are genuinely good people, born and raised in this country who are having to fight for the same basic rights taken for granted by everyone else. There is no place for bigotry and homophobia in the US, but do not call the election of laws preventing them ‘pro-Gay’. They are by definition PRO AMERICA. Anything else is NAZI Germany.
Dear Gods when are we going to get gay marriage in Delaware. Come on, it’s not like we have a huge anti-hay populace. Or a huge populace. Good on the anti discrimination though.,
Rose Willson