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The other day, I wrote a blog entry about Pennsylvania’s Senator Leach who wants to introduce a Marriage Equality Bill in the PA Senate, which is heavily republican. This suggests it hasn’t much chance of passage although you never know/ PA currently has a law against same-sex marriage, so we are not starting at a neutral place, and there is already a bill that has been introduced that would move PA towards a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Senator Leach wrote a reply to my post, explaining at least a part of his rationale, and I appreciate the Senator, both for caring about moving LGBT Rights forward in the state, and for writing to my blog. He has agreed for me to interview him further, and I’ll be posting that as an audio podcast. I don’t anticipate getting to that for about 2 weeks with Pride happening next week.

Yet, the  linked article is a good example of what can happen when the rights of all GLBTQ folks are not sought before the rights of a smaller subset of the gay and lesbian community. I am all for marriage equality, but of what value is gay marriage to two women living in Holidaysburg PA, when each could be fired for being gay?

I agree fully with Senator Leach that now is a right time to be in dialogue about all of these things. Yet, as we move ahead, we must be clear to consider what laws we pass and how they impact everyone .

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