Get a room! “Marriage applications have skyrocketed since the District started issuing licenses for same-sex couples this month, with droves of gay partners expected to relocate to the city from states where they can’t tie the knot. About 1,100 marriage applications have been filed in the District since March 3, according to courthouse spokeswoman Leah Gurowitz, nearly six times the average monthly count. Though the numbers are expected to fade in coming months, lawyers, politicians and gay activists say same-sex couples will continue to migrate to the District, leaving behind states where they aren’t recognized.” [Washington Examiner]
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Jeez, D.C.’s Homos Want to Married Real Bad
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Cam
Maryland looks like it’s about to accept out of state gay marriages also and with DC just a few min. to at most a few hours away from the entire state of MD. you can bet that there will be a flood of MD. marriage applications as well. Good for the whole area.
mdthom
Maryland does accept out of state gay marriages.
Cam
MDTHOM…
Opinion has gone out, but it’s still int he forming stage. Here is a section from Equality Marylands Site on the subject…
“Will the State government automatically start treating us as married? State government is made up of many agencies that provide hundreds of services governed by different laws and regulations — so it may take some time for the Attorney General’s opinion to be applied throughout Maryland State agencies. In some cases there may be existing State laws, regulations, policies, and forms that pose an issue for implementing the Attorney General opinion. These will have to be sorted out, and it will not all happen overnight. In some areas, issues may need to be fixed through advocacy or staff training. The Governor and Attorney General have said that this work is underway. Our organizations are advocating to help with this process and to see marriage recognition principles fully implemented as promptly as possible.”
So the decision has come out, but now they are just untangling all the issues around it.
Nicholas Sohr
Md. delegate’s move to impeach attorney general pushed to committee
Posted: 9:14 am Wed, March 31, 2010
By Nicholas Sohr
ANNAPOLIS – An attempt to impeach Maryland’s attorney general devolved into a House of Delegates debate on parliamentary rules, leaving discussion of the impeachment itself to a House committee hearing later Wednesday afternoon.
Del. Don H. Dwyer Jr., R-Anne Arundel, has for months threatened to impeach Attorney General Doug Gansler after Gansler in January issued an opinion advising state agencies to recognize legal same-sex marriages in other states.
The opinion usurped the lawmaking power of the General Assembly, Dwyer bellowed on the House floor.
The impeachment is “an issue that will affect this great institution for the rest of its existence if it isn’t resolved today,” he added.
Dwyer said later: “It is about a blatant disregard for this institution.”
Dwyer and other Republican delegates pressed for a vote on the impeachment on the floor of the House and were ultimately unsuccessful after about an hour of debate. The impeachment resolution was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which has scheduled a 3 p.m. hearing where members of the House will discuss the issue.
“We will definitely vote on it,” said Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., the Prince George’s County Democrat who chairs the committee. Vallario said the vote to kill the impeachment or send it to the House floor could take place tonight or tomorrow.
House Minority Leader Anthony J. O’Donnell, R-Calvert and St. Mary’s, tried unsuccessfully to reverse the decision to send the resolution to committee and hear it on the House floor instead. His measure failed 101-39.
Democratic leaders said the committee referral followed the standard House rules.
“The people’s House should not be turned into the people’s coliseum, where public officials are torn apart for the sport of the crowd,” said Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons, D-Montgomery.
O’Donnell acknowledged the proceedings on Wednesday “could have devolved into something worse.”
“I think it was done with as much control as could be expected,” he said.
Dwyer had long predicted he would get ruled out of order, shouted down and even thrown out of the chamber. Indeed, there were extra state troopers on hand, though they were occupied mostly with quieting onlookers in the gallery who cheered Dwyer on.