California Readers: Your Help Needed Today on Same-Sex Marriage Bill
By Meredith Richey
Please act on this and send this article on to your friends in California.
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in California failed in the state Assembly Wednesday by 37 to 35. Then, gay marriage backers used a parliamentary procedure maneuver to bring the bill to a vote again on Thursday. The bill didn’t fare any better on its second go round.
However, with the aggressive tenacity and legal maneuvering that has marked the same-sex marriage battle across the nation, the bill’s lead author Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said the backers will take one more shot at having the bill voted on today.
Leno and his special interest group will not accept defeat.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, supporters hope “it would be the first time a legislative chamber in the United States voted voluntarily to put same-sex couples on equal legal footing with heterosexuals. It took a court order for Massachusetts last year to become the first state in the country to allow gays and lesbians to marry.”
