REPEAL REJECTED: New Hampshire Sticks With Marriage Equality [View all]
Source: The Advocate
A Republican-led effort to repeal marriage equality in New Hampshire decisively failed today. Lawmakers voted against the repeal, against replacing marriage with civil unions, and against putting it up to a voter referendum.
Just to ensure the message was clear, Republican Rep. Seth Cohn, who supports marriage equality, proposed banning marriage between left-handed people. That didn't pass either.
The final vote was 211-116 to kill a bill that would have rescinded marriage equality in the state, and it included a number of Republicans like Cohn who broke with their party.
Gov. John Lynch signed marriage equality legislation in 2009 after it narrowly passed through the legislature, and he has promised to veto any effort to repeal the law. It would have needed to pass through both Republican-led chambers before reaching his desk.
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