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Dwyer wants floor debate on marriage measures

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 02/08/08

Continuing his quest to get the question of gay marriage out of the House Judiciary Committee, Del. Don Dwyer, R-Glen Burnie, is trying a different tactic this year.

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He's trying to get a bill he vehemently opposes through to the floor of the House of Delegates.

 

Mr. Dwyer is circulating two petitions - one for his own bill that would send a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the voters and another for a bill by Del. Ben Barnes, D-College Park, that would create civil marriages for same-sex couples.

His goal is to move the debate from the relative obscurity of the committee to the floor of the House...

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