Both NM House DOMA Bills Stopped in Committee

You know I'm celebrating this one! As reported by Steve Terrell in the Santa Fe New Mexican:

Same-sex marriage isn’t legal in New Mexico, but a House Committee on Thursday halted attempts to carve in stone a state ban on gay marriages. On party-line votes, the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted to table two measures that targeted gay marriage. The actions effectively killed the bills for this session of the Legislature.

House Joint Resolution 2, sponsored by Rep. Gloria Vaughn, R-Alamogordo, would have let state voters decide whether to amend the state constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

House Bill 395, sponsored by Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell, would have put that definition of marriage in state statute.

I suggest we thank the Democratic members of the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee for voting to keep discrimination of this type out of NM law and our Constitution!

A big shout-out goes to Dem Reps. Gail Chasey, Irvin Harrison, Antonio "Moe" Maestas and Al Park!