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It is hard to unsnarl yesterday's Oregon decision that (a) the issuing of licenses to gay couples will be put on hold, (2) The Oregon Legislature MUST draft civil union legislation within 90 days to assure equal rights for gays (which civil unions do not), (3) the licenses and marriages already conducted [3000 of them] must be validated. In other words, something for everyone, but progress nonetheless. It will all be appealed; but here we go! Yeh Oregon.

And in California, for the first time in the USA, a legislative body (a committee) approved a bill which would permit licenses to all couples regardless of gender, period. It would change the wording to 'two persons' rather than whatever is there now. The bill must go to the (what?) the Appropriations Committee next. Why? Are they going to appropriate money for the receptions? Anyway, the march continues.