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“I’d like to thank Senate President Miller for his leadership and our legislators in the Senate for their hard work and their vote today for human dignity. All children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. The common thread running through our efforts together in Maryland is the thread …

I’ll post an live stream when it’s ready. After a request by Republicans to delay the measure, discussion is expected to begin Thursday morning. Debate comes less than a week after the House of Delegates barely passed the bill. Last year, the Senate passed a similar proposal 25-21 and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said the vote is not …

(Via – Igor Volsky)

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Noticeably absent: Chris Christie. (Tipped by JMG reader Brian)

Tomorrow Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will introduce his marriage equality bill. O’Malley (D) is scheduled to host a breakfast gathering of same-sex couples at Government House and then tout his legislation at a news conference afterward. Aides say O’Malley will be joined outside his residence by supportive legislators, clergy and labor leaders. Word of his plans spread as O’Malley prepared …

(Via – Towleroad)

The Archbishop of Baltimore, Edwin O’Brien, has a message for Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who earlier this week vowed to support the renewed push for marriage equality. “Maryland is not New York,” wrote Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore in a statement to LifeSiteNews Tuesday. “During the 2011 session, Maryland lawmakers chose not to redefine marriage because they listened to their …

As Maryland’s activists gear up to take another run at marriage equality, Gov. Martin O’Malley has pledged his full support. “I certainly plan to be very active in support of it, and we’ll have other announcements in upcoming months,” O’Malley said at the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City. O’Malley has long supported civil unions and has said …

Many are looking to Maryland to become the next state to approve marriage equality and with Gov. O’Malley winning reelection, that prospect looks brighter. O’Malley has vowed to sign a marriage bill should it reach his desk. Big win for LGBT rights!

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said yesterday that if a marriage equality bill were to reach his desk, he would sign it. O’Malley had previously only gone as far as endorsing civil unions. “I don’t have a crystal ball to predict how this goes,” O’Malley said, “but I do know this: I know the people of our state well enough that …

The governors of Maryland and Virginia, both of whom are Catholic, appeared on DC-area radio yesterday to blast DC’s Catholic Charities over the organization’s threat to suspend homeless services should same-sex marriage become legal in the District. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley criticized the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington’s response to the district’s gay marriage proposal during …