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Rhode Island Lawmakers Pass Bill to Allow Civil Unions for Gays
Less than a week after same-sex marriage was legalized in New York, the Rhode
Island State Senate approved on Wednesday evening a bill allowing not marriage,
but civil unions for gay couples, despite fierce opposition from gay-rights
advocates who called the legislation discriminatory.
The bill, which already passed in the state’s House of Representatives and which
the governor said he will likely sign, would grant gay and lesbian couples most
of the rights and benefits that Rhode Island provides married couples. It was
offered as a compromise this spring after Gordon D. Fox, the openly gay speaker
of the Democratic-controlled House, said he could not muster enough votes to
pass a same-sex marriage bill.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30unions.html?emc=na
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