Lots of late-breaking news today, so here are a few items that didn’t make it into my earlier roundup:
- Opponents of same-sex marriage in Florida managed to collect enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment banning it on the November ballot.
- A New York appeals court ruled that valid same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries must be recognized in New York (so we Massachusetts folks can be secure in our relationships when we march proudly through Manhattan or the Adirondacks in our Red Sox hats and Patriot jerseys).
- An Oregon judge ruled that opponents of domestic partnerships failed to gather enough signatures to place the law on the November ballot.
- In a non-marriage related but still important ruling for LGBT parents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the rejection of a suit brought by two couples from Lexington, Massachusetts, who said their school district had no right to include LGBT-related books like King & King
in its elementary school curriculum. I’ll be writing more about this in a separate post. Stay tuned.