News Across the U.S.
- Marriage equality activists in Maryland are reluctant to push for full legal marriage, despite the Attorney General's declaration that the state recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere. Activists are worried that the timing isn't right and any attempt to push for gay marriage will backfire and lead to an outright ban.
- An attempted impeachment of that same Attorney General of Maryland (on the grounds that he was neglectful in his decision) failed this week.
- Gay marriage has been legal in Iowa for a year now and there's very little support for its ban.
- D.C. has seen a massive spike in marriage applications since gay marriage became legal there. D.C. has the highest percentage of gay couples in the country. This month there were 1100 marriage applications, about six times the norm.
- The U.S. Census was due this week. This is the first year that gay couples will be counted. Although the Census does not specifically ask if one is gay or lesbian, you can designate yourself as married if you consider yourself as such (even if you're not legally married.)
- A retired Presbyterian minister who lives in California faces the church court because she performed some gay marriage ceremonies.
- In Pennsylvania, a state which does recognize gay marriage and where it's not legal, a court ruled that a lesbian couple married in Massachusetts cannot divorce in Pennsylvania. One of these spouses will need to establish residency in Massachusetts in order to officially divorce. This situation is a side-effect of the Defense of Marriage Act.
- The opposite situation happened in Texas this week, with a couple married in Massachusetts, allowed to divorce in Texas. How can same-sex divorce be legal in Texas when marriage is not? That is the question of the hour and this case is likely to reach the Texas Supreme Court.
Do you know any couples who have had a legal gay marriage ceremony and are now seeking a divorce? Do they live in a state where gay divorce is possible?
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