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AUGUST 3. 2007 marriage in New Mexico died after a House committee tabled them tn February. A domestic partnership bill, which would have provided mar riagelike rights to gay couples, passed the state’s House this year and came one vote short of passing in the Senate. A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential hopeful, said his office will seek to recognize same-sex marriages next year, when he rein troduces a domestic partnership bill that failed to win passage this year. I VO I I i juStlOUt 19 again! LIPOATROPHY (SUNKEN CHEEKS)? k a I f • I Signature Scandal Implicates Lawmaker An Ohio Republican state House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expects the House to representative from Cincinnati is vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act next month. being tied to a petition fraud case concerning the repeal of the city’s nondiscrimina later our neighbor to the east would pass civil tion ordinance. unions without a whimper, they would have said, Tom Brinkman, the lawmaker behind the bid to ‘You’re crazy, Shumlin.’ But that is how quickly the repeal Cincinnati’s ordinance, has been accused of conversation has evolved.” knowing that names used to get the issue on the Vermont is in gixxl company with two pro-gay ballot in 2006 were fraudulent. neighbors: New Hampshire, which approved a civ The Republican denies any wrongdoing. He il unions law this year, and Massachusetts, which said he did not touch any address, date, name or became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage signature. in 2004. A seven-month investigation into the matter According to a poll, 42 percent of Vermont resulted in charges against day laborers Lois Mingo residents agree that gays and lesbians should have and Precilia Ward, who worked for an outside firm the right to get married, with 11 percent of voters hired to collect the signatures. They were charged “leaning toward that decision." The poll indicated with felony election falsification March 1. Ward that 37 percent disagree with same-sex marriage. was also charged with two counts of putting false Rob Roper, chairman of the Vermont signatures on election documents. Each count is Republican Party, said the party does not have punishable by up to a year in prison. a position on same-sex marriage but thought this The referendum campaign for the newly enact issue would be distracting in light of a “tax crisis.” ed ordinance was halted in August after petitions Republican Gov. James Douglas also expressed were found to have fake signatures, including those concern that the issue would be viewed as “divisive.” of Fidel Castro and Cincinnati Reds owner Bob Democrats disagreed. Castellini. With the April deadline, lawmakers predict Ohio’s Equal Rights Not Special Rights collect that same-sex marriage won’t be debated until the ed thousands of names on petitions to have a repeal state’s 2008 election. measure put to voters last November. The group voluntarily withdrew the measure when many of WASHINGTON the signatures were deemed fake. Domestic Partnership Law Begins The phony signatures were discovered only More than 100 gay and lesbian couples during a second check, after a challenge by the gay registered as domestic partners July 23 when rights group Restore Fairness. Prior to that chal Washington’s new law went into effect. lenge, the Hamilton County Board of Elections had Domestic partnerships in Washington provide validated more than 7,600 signatures. 12 rights to same-sex couples including hospital visitation, the ability to authorize autopsies and VERMONT organ donations, and the ability to inherit in the Vermont to Study Marriage absence of a will. The law stops grossly short of Lawmakers in Vermont announced July 25 that protections provided by marriage. a commission has been formed to gauge voters’ To be eligible for domestic partnership, the opinions about same-sex marriage. couple must share a home, not he married or in This comes seven years after Vermont became a domestic relationship with someone else and be the first in the nation to legalize civil unions. at least 18. House Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, In 2006 the Washington Supreme Court upheld and Senate President Pro Tern Peter Shumlin, the state’s 1998 same-sex marriage ban, which D-Putney, said the commission will study state laws defines marriage as between one man and one and hold hearings throughout Vermont. It will issue woman. Heterosexual seniors also receive benefits from a report to the Legislature in April 2008. the domestic partnership law. 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