NH: Judiciary Committee Votes Against Repealing Gay Marriage Law

A House committee that deadlocked a year ago over legalizing gay marriage voted yesterday against repealing New Hampshire's five-week-old law allowing the unions. The Judiciary Committee also voted to recommend that the House kill a proposed constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

The vote was 12-8 on both measures, largely along party lines led by Democratic opposition. Last year, the committee couldn't agree on a recommendation and brought a bill to the House floor to legalize the unions without one. Some supporters felt at the time that it was too soon to allow gay marriage since the state's civil unions law was only a year old. But after a series of votes, the House narrowly passed the bill that became law.

Gay marriage opponents know their chance of success on such measures in New Hampshire is slim, but they want to keep the issue before voters in hopes Republicans will regain control of the State House from Democrats in November and succeed then in banning gay marriage.

Full Story from the Concord Monitor
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