The long slog for marriage equality has begun in Nevada

[osodecanela]

So yesterday the Nevada house successfully approved the bill that was approved earlier in the Senate in late April. In order for this to become law in Nevada it will have to come up in an identical form during legislative 2015 and be approved by both houses. Then it can go before the voters in 2016 as a constitutional amendment. If the voters approve then marriage equality will become the law in Nevada.

There is however a lawsuit pending in their courts, Which is on hold until after the Supreme Court makes their ruling in proposition eight. Sevcik v. Sandoval is challenging the states refusal to offer marriage license to same-sex couples. Nevada, just like California, is under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which did uphold the Federal District Court ruling on proposition eight.

Time will only tell where this goes. Stay tuned for details.

Comments

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

I wonder if we're going to achieve "critical mass" on this, or if it's all going to stall at some point, much like the ERA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't think this is going to be like the ERA. They are our time to get approval by three quarters of the states was indeed finite. I think this is going to be more like Loving V Virginia.

Frankly however, I don't want to see it take as long as it took us to get interracial marriage as the law of the land in this country. It only took 189 years to go from when Pennsylvania removed it from Its canon of laws to when the Supreme Court finally made their ruling in '67. My gut says this is going to take us a while, but I do think it's going to happen in our lifetimes.