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New Hampshire House Overwhelmingly Rejects Attempt to Repeal
Marriage Rights |
New York, February 17, 2010 - Statement by Evan Wolfson, Executive
Director of Freedom to Marry following the New Hampshire House of
Representatives votes rejecting HR1590-FN, a bill that would repeal the
freedom to marry, and CACR 28, a resolution seeking to amend the state
constitution to restrict marriage:
"In resounding votes today, New Hampshire lawmakers sent a clear signal
of their continued support for the freedom tomarry, rejecting attempts
to strip marriage away from committed couples who happen to be gay. The
New Hampshire votes followed a similar stand by legislators in Iowa last
week. Iowa and New Hampshire's refusal to take the freedom to marry away
underscored the lesson learned in Massachusetts, Vermont, and
Connecticut: including same-sex committed couples in marriage helps
families and harms no one.
As same-sex couples continue to marry and
the sky doesn't fall in the nation's two first presidential-primary
states, Americans will have more chances to think anew about the
importance of treating others as we all would want to be treated, and to
ask our elected officials whether they, too, support equal justice
under the law."
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Freedom to Marry is the leading campaign working to win marriage
nationwide. We partner with a diverse range of organizations and
supporters across the country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples
from the responsibilities, protections, and commitment of marriage.
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