HRC Blog

With marriage equality in Maryland heating up, we’re ramping up ahead of the October special session to make sure that Delegates know that we expect them to honor Governor O’Malley’s commitment to making marriage equality a reality.

We told you last week that Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern was up to her old tricks of comparing homosexuality to terrorism. Since then, HRC members and supporters have generated nearly 240,000 calling on Governor Mary Fallin, Speaker of the House Kris Steele and Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman to speak out and condemn Kern’s remarks.

North Carolina State Representative Marcus Brandon was in Washington, DC this week for the National Conference of State Legislatures conference.  He took the time to visit HRC to thank us for our efforts in trying to help him stop the anti-marriage amendment from proceeding onto next year’s ballot.

Iowa members of Congress (U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Congressmen Leonard Boswell and Bruce Braley) joined Congress members Tammy Baldwin and David Cicilline, the Human Rights Campaign and others earlier this week to say thank you to Iowa state Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal.

Today, the North Carolina Senate passed a bill to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the May 2012 ballot by a vote of 30 to 16, following last night’s vote by the House of 75 to 42.