New Hampshire is the Latest US State to Approve LGBT Marriages
by New Hampshire is the latest US state to approve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender marriages.Already LGBT marriages have been approved by the US states Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa. New Hampshire is the latest and the sixth US state to join the list.
New Hampshire is the latest US state to approve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender marriages.Already LGBT marriages have been approved by the US states Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa. New Hampshire is the latest and the sixth US state to join the list.
New Hampshire state before passing the LGBT bill has some difficult civil right issues to solve.Both the Democrats and the Republicans were divided on the issues.Finally the LGBT bill was passed with some exceptions.The law will come into force from First day of January, 2010.
According to Mr.Lynch, the Governor of the New Hampshire state, while passing the LGBT bill they had to take into account the civil rights of the religious institutions.When the question of officiating and solemnising the marriages of LGBT came up, the religious institutions being the private institutions, they are entitled to safeguard their own religious rights.If they are not willing to officiate and solemnise any marriage involving LGBT, they cannot be forced to do so.If the religious institutions are forced to officiate and solemnize an LGBT marriage it would be unconstitutional.
Therefore, New Hampshire passed the LGBT marriages bill by granting exemptions to the religious institutions. Though there is an outcry among the LGBT supporters against granting any exemptions to the religious institutions, the credit of upholding the supremacy of the law and the constitution, should go to Mr.Lynch, the Governor of New Hampshire.
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Post Commentken bultman
On June 5, 2009 at 2:56 am
Whoopee!
George W Whitehead
On June 5, 2009 at 3:00 am
Over here in the UK we have had a law allowing LGBT marriages for two or three years now. I have no issue with gays, each to his (or her) own, but why do they need to get married?
Ramalingam
On June 5, 2009 at 3:14 am
You are right; the LGBT marriages have no purpose; it is purely sensuous.nothing more than that; only time will tell.
Daisy Peasblossom
On June 5, 2009 at 5:57 am
Not sure about the UK, but in the United States, married couples have several tax advantages over single persons or persons filing as head of household; also, inheritance rights are more clear. For same-sex couples with long-standing relationships, these can be serious concerns.
Ramalingam
On June 5, 2009 at 6:10 am
The only reason adduced by the supporters of LGBT marriages is that sex is purely a private affair of an individual or individuals and they don’t think about legal or social consequences.
Darla Cooke
On June 5, 2009 at 8:11 am
Interesting article.
George W Whitehead
On June 5, 2009 at 3:07 pm
#4 Daisy P. ‘Married’ gay couples over here also get the same tax and state benefit concessions and inheritance rights as straight couples too, but is that a basis for a marriage?
Ramalingam
On June 5, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Though gay couples may get the same tax and state benefits concessions and rights of inheritance as straight couples,still they are not on equal footing.While the straight marriage has the purpose of begetting an offspring,it has a long history of evolution,tradition and sanctity etc,the LGBT marriages are degenerated form of marriages, having no purpose, based on pure sensuality and besides having a number of other question marks that remain unanswered.
Ruby Hawk
On June 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I have no objection to any couple who love each other gay or straight who want to become a family and make a home together doing so. There is insurance, tax,home ownership,and all sorts of reasons for becoming a couple and of course the main reason, love. If a straight couple can be married then a gay couple should be able to marry.
Ramalingam
On June 8, 2009 at 6:43 am
Hello Stay straight, it is only an article and I have submitted only an unbiased information and it is happening in one of the states of US.At whom your comments are directed? You stay straight but pl for heavens sake do not offend others.
clay hurtubise
On June 11, 2009 at 6:00 am
There are a lot of advantages to being married. Not only finacial, but the right to visit a loved one who is hospitalized, the right to attend a funeral: things most people take for granted. Marriage is about love, not kids, not YOUR religion. If people are able to vote on the right of marriage, then the rights of religions should also be able to be voted on as they act more like a political party than a religion.
Nice piece.
Thanks,
clay
Ramalingam
On June 11, 2009 at 6:55 am
Friend, I wantonly avoided to passing any unwarranted comments about LGBT marriages.The advantages that you refer to can be had even through friendship and the friends but for their sensuality need not get married.The purpose of marriage is after all to beget children and it is not there in a gay, lesbian marriages.And in a bisexual marriage if a life partner happens to be a woman and if she gets conceived, the paternity of the child may be in question.As to the marriage of trangenders, I sympathise with them, because in countries like India they have no separate identity, no separate bathrooms or latrines as available in the western countries like US.Again religion is a personal faith of a person in which legislators can have no control.In the medieval days the domination of religion over politics was questioned and finally they were separated and each of them were segregated in a way that either politics or religion had no business to control over or interfere with the other.No one can be compelled by an act of the legislature that one should embrace this or that religion.In the same way legislature cannot compel a religious institution to tow their line of thinking.Thank you.