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Mar 2010

Lords back religious civil partnerships for gay couples
The House of Lords has approved an amendment to the Equality Bill giving gay couples the right to have civil partnerships in church, Read the full story now

Feb 2010

Gay civil partnerships approved for parliament
The Houses of Parliament will be opened for civil partnerships and marriages for both MPs and members of the public.

Westminster council has approved two rooms for use for the non-religious ceremonies after Speaker John Bercow began looking into the possibility of holding ceremonies for gay MPs on parliament's grounds last year. Read the full story

Jan 2010

Portugal's Parliament Approves Gay Marriage
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

Conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva is thought unlikely to veto the Socialist government's bill, which won the support of all left-of-center parties. His ratification would allow the first gay marriage ceremonies to take place in April. Read the full story

New Jersey Senate defeats same-sex marriage bill
(CNN) -- A bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New Jersey was defeated in the state Senate Thursday by a vote 14-20.

New Jersey would have been the sixth state to legalize gay marriage, but advocates of the bill were seven votes shy of what was needed to move the measure on to the other state chamber, the Assembly. Read the full story now

Catholic Portugal, traditionally one of Europe's most socially conservative countries, is expected to approve the legalization of gay marriage on Friday with a minimum of fuss.

With the governing Socialists and other left-wing parties enjoying a strong majority, the new law is likely to sail through the first reading debate and gain final approval before a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, due in Portugal in May.

In contrast to Spain, where the lead-up to the legalization of gay marriage in 2005 brought hundreds of thousands of demonstrators onto the streets, the bill in Portugal has provoked only muted opposition even from the right. Read the full story

NJ Marriage Equality Vote on Thursday?
OK, this has been back and forth so many times, it's like watching a tennis tournament. However, according to the latest post on NJ.com a vote may be happening on Thursday of this week:

Legislation that would legalize gay marriage in New Jersey will go up for a vote in the full Senate on Thursday, Senate President Richard Codey announced today.

“Given the intensely personal nature of this issue, I think the people of this state deserve the right to a formal debate on the Senate floor,” Codey (D-Essex) said in a statement.

The Assembly was expected to take up the measure before a full Senate vote, but Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) last week said his house would not vote on it until the upper chamber approved the bill.

Many legislators have refused to say publicly where they stand on the matter and how they would vote. Legislators who are in favor of the measure have said support for the bill won't be known until the votes are tallied.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the bill during a long, often emotional, seven-hour hearing in December. Shortly after the committee vetted the measure, though, a scheduled vote on the Senate floor was delayed. The bill's sponsors, Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Union) and Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), announced that the Assembly would take up the proposal first.

The senators said they hoped to ride that momentum and have it pass the full Assembly before sending it back to the Senate. Opponents of the measure said this signalled there were not enough votes to have it pass.

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