A news conference unveiling the Marriage Equality bill is scheduled for 2:30 this afternoon at Wilmington’s Freedom Plaza. Rep. Melanie George Smith will sponsor the bill that will legalize marriages between same sex partners, just as she sponsored and worked the Civil Unions bill last session.
Marriage Equality has already been achieved in nine other states and in the District of Columbia. Instead of being the First State, Delaware will be the Tenth. Marriage Equality is already supported by Governor Markell, the Democratic Party, trade unions, the DuPont Company, some Republicans (included some like Fluharty in their own party leadership), and a majority of all Delawareans and all Americans.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Gay and Anti-Marriage Equality Delaware Family Policy Council says marriage equality shouldn’t be a political issue, since civil unions already provide benefits to same-sex couples without redefining traditional marriage. Which of course makes them hypocrites since the right politicized this issue in 2004 in order to draw out the social conservatives.