Or rather: create civil unions to prevent marriage.

The answer – a single law granting to same-sex couples and gay individuals all the rights and privileges available to opposite sex couples and heterosexual individuals. It’s not complicated. Passing and implementing the legislation wouldn’t be easy, but the answer is hardly difficult to see.

Lawmakers have a choice. They can give us our rights a bit at a time, or they can give us all our rights in one go. The only choice they cannot make is to take the action this festering turd did and veto important legislation.

As for his apparent turnaround, either conversations with LGBT individuals has genuinely changed his mind, or he still has political ambitions and felt those ambitions could have been threatened by the backlash to his actions. His words are nice to hear, but they’re also meaningless unless they’re followed by action. Either he needs to withdraw his veto and sign the damn legislation, or rapidly begin work on an alternative. Anything short, and his words just add insult to injury.

Why do I not trust this? Who the hell changes their mind so completely in two days? I see Lucy teeing up the football now…

Translation: You LGBT’s are icky. Let’s lump in some other people so I don’t have to think about you.

I believe this tactic is included strictly to make it difficult to turn civil unions into marriages once marriage is legalized in RI.

Marriage equality and a domestic partnership law that included non-romantic partners would do the trick. That would be efficient.

He is correct, though, in that you don’t want a separate law for every legal benefit afforded by marriage or some type of civil union. It’s just that he’s using that as an excuse for inaction. And what’s this “I don’t know enough”? Has he avoided reading all news in the past seven or eight years?!

So the race for governor is up in the air. After Carcieri, it probably will not be another Republican. The thing to look out for is an up and coming third party in Rhode Island called the Moderate Party. The state is pretty much a single-party state under the Democrats and they are ALL corrupt (as are the Republicans). People are disgusted with both parties and the Moderate Party could actually take control of Rhode Island.

While the Moderate Party has not made an official stance on marriage equality (or any other social issues for that matter), I have spoken to the leader of the Party, Ken Block, who is in favor of marriage equality.