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 Maryland to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages (Performed Elsewhere)Posted on Feb 25, 2010
The state of Maryland hasn’t worked out legislation to officially validate same-sex marriages that happen within its own borders, but as of Wednesday, Maryland’s Attorney General Douglas Gansler made it possible for GLBTQ partners’ unions to be legally recognized—as long as they were performed somewhere else. —KA
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By Charles, February 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment
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I really appreciate the great coverage truthdig gives to gay and lesbian issues. Thanks!
Report thisBy Emory, February 25, 2010 at 11:59 am Link to this comment
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It’s not really “GLBTQ” people whose unions will be recognized now - it’s lesbians and gay men. Transsexuals can already get married, so long as they marry someone of the opposite sex. Most transsexual women identify as heterosexual women, and most transsexual men identify as heterosexual men. Transmen who identify as gay men and transwomen who identify as lesbians need marriage rights as gay men and lesbians, not as transsexuals. Even if one thinks that blasted acronym “LGBTQ” has legitimacy in some context or other, there’s no need to use it when speaking of the rights of gay men and lesbians to get married. It’s inaccurate and misleading. Gay/lesbian issues and trans issues are really very different most all the time. Blurring them together helps nothing. As for the “Q” - well, whatever; it’s pretty meaningless.
Report thisBy RAE, February 25, 2010 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
Any jurisdiction that chooses to discriminate to such a gross degree as to not recognize a legal marriage is not led by authorities mature enough to warrant my time or resources. It’s completely beyond me what needs to be “worked out” to simply INCLUDE everyone instead of blowing millions to figure some way to EXCLUDE a few.
I would completely boycott that juridiction’s products and services. When I travel, that jurisdiction simply wouldn’t exist.
Two can play the “discrimination game.”
But you know what the ugliest part of this is? It’s that if all the gay and lesbian folk living IN Maryland suddenly decided to shop and travel only outside the state and in every other way boycott whatever Maryland has to offer in the way of products and services, THERE WOULD BE AN IMMEDIATE REPEAL OF THE DISCRIMINATORY LAWS. MONEY is the only measure of “fairness” valid in these tiny minds.
Report thisBy ibh, February 25, 2010 at 11:11 am Link to this comment
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Good for them - and this is from a heterosexual!!
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