Hey! Maryland might do something rad:
Equality Maryland is “fairly close” to meeting its goal of lining up 35 House and Senate cosponsors for the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act, according to Carrie Evans, the group’s policy director.
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Tentatively slated for introduction Jan. 15, the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act would make valid marriages of “two people.”
Sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Gwendolyn Britt (D-Prince George’s County) and in the House by Dels. Victor Ramirez (D-Prince George’s County) and Benjamin Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties), the act also makes clear that churches may continue to choose whom to marry.
Well, how-ya-fuckin'-do, Maryland!
I love the idea of churches staying the eff out of the whole deal. They generally don't want me up in their God box, and I tend to stay away from their God box in return. In fact, I haven't been in a church since I was about 4, and every single (heterosexual!) person in my surly, redneck family in the last two generations has been married in a nice, godless civil ceremony, thanksverymuch.
[Via WashBlade]
