Lots of people are about to get invited to lots of weddings. These are the problems you want to have. Following a final 56-15 vote in the House Governor Lincoln Chafee signed into law a bill making Rhode Island the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. The first weddings will take place August …
The Rhode Island Senate passed the same-sex marriage bill 26/12 (how they voted). The Providence Journal reports, Describing himself as “thrilled” by the Senate’s passage of same-sex marriage legislation, the state’s openly-gay House Speaker Gordon Fox promised what could be the final votes on the legislation next week. He promised a House Judiciary Committee vote …
Rhode Island’s newest hero is Wheeler sixth-grader Matthew Lannon who testified about his own family at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on the same-sex marriage bills. The marathon hearing lasted until 5am Friday morning; we hope Lannon was allowed to testify early on, it being a school night. His composure and poise under such circumstances was …