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mmhoover1
Maryland not part of the National DOMA Protest Day on 1/10/2009?
Dec 15 2008, 8:43 AM EST | Post edited: Dec 15 2008, 8:43 AM EST
Maryland is like and not like Massachusetts. Largely Democrat state, Gay marriage rights struggle, gay marriage rallies, talks with legislators about gay marriage, gay marriage hearings in state capital, previous GOP Gov hankering after antigay marriage constitutional amendment.
Similarity ends there. Massachusetts has attained and retained gay marriage, Maryland gay community lost its gay marriage battle in 2007 court case, rallies for gay marriage still a once a year event each February in Annapolis.
Unlike Massachusetts and MassEquality, Maryland and Equatity Maryland has no plans for National DOMA Protest Day which I find disturbing as gay marriage would lose a major impediment if the Federal level DOMA or Defense of Marriage Act (making a mockery at our national entry points including US Customs booths in Canadiian airports on Canadian soil of legal MA and CT gay marriages and of gay marriages legal in Spain, Canada, South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium and Norway (gay marriage law there passed in 2008 and in effect in 2009, prohibiting social security benefits for suriving spouse of gay marriage, etc)
were to be repealed.If Federal level DOMA were to repealed, gay marriage would likely spread more rapidly throught the USA and the full faith and credi clause in US Constitution stating that marriage and other laws legal in one state need to recognized in other states
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MiDerecho!
1. RE: Maryland not part of the National DOMA Protest Day on 1/10/2009?
Dec 15 2008, 11:45 AM EST | Post edited: Dec 15 2008, 11:45 AM EST
So what can we do here in Maryland? I'm in Baltimore, frankly, I don't see much activity here at all. How do we get Marylanders going? Do you find this valuable?