New Hampshire

Gay activist and Presidential hopeful Fred Karger has released a 60 second TV spot that has already started running in New Hampshire taking on the National Organization For Marriage and their lies.

CONCORD, N.H. — Gay marriage opponents said Thursday they are confident the New Hampshire state House will vote on legislation to repeal the law that sanctions gay marriage, even though Republican leaders have said it is not on their list of priorities this year.

Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, whose consecration instigated a global religious controversy, announced to the Disocese of New Hampshire on Saturday that he would take early retirement, citing public backlash and “constant strain” from the experience.

The New Hampshire Union-Leader of Manchester is one of the state’s largest newspapers, but apparently they didn’t get the memo that same sex marriage has been legal in their state since January.

New Hampshire’s House rejected a pair of anti-gay marriage bills on Wednesday. The House voted 201-135 to kill a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Supporters needed 60 percent of the House to place it on the November ballot. Later in the day, the House voted 210-109 to reject […]

New Hampshire State Rep. Nancy Elliott apologized Tuesday and withdrew her claim that gay sex was being taught to fifth graders in Nashua public schools. From the Nashua Telegraph: “I would like to apologize to the Judiciary Committee, the Nashua public schools and its employees and the speaker as well as anyone else affected by […]

New Hampshire’s House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a pair of anti-gay marriage bills. One is a bill, sponsored by Rep. L. Mike Kappler, which would repeal the state’s six-week-old law legalizing gay marriage. The other is a proposed constitutional amendment, sponsored by Rep. Daniel Itse, which would state that “the state shall only […]

New Hampshire state Rep. Nancy Elliott wants to repeal same-sex marriage because “we’re talking about taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement. And you have to think, would I allow that to be done to me?” And to the other lawmakers […]

Three weeks after New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage, opponents are asking the House to repeal the law and let voters amend the constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The House Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on two Republican-sponsored proposals that many expect the House to reject when they are brought […]

Gay and lesbian couples rushed to marry in New Hampshire on Friday when at the stroke of midnight it became the fifth U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage, reversing some setbacks for the polarizing national movement.