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Does President Obama’s admission that he has ’evolved’ on gay marriage point to an incremental approach, with civil unions serving as a way station? Or have we waited too long for full equality to accept half a loaf, even temporarily?

The civil unions bill approved by RI lawmakers includes language that would allow religious organizations to dismiss the rights given to gay couples in a civil union.

After playing a key role in defeating a push for gay marriage, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence has urged Rhode Island lawmakers to reject an alternative establishing civil unions for gay couples, calling them a "stepping stone" to gay marriage.

Acknowledging Rhode Island’s marriage equality bill does not have enough votes to pass in the state Senate; gay House Speaker Gordon Fox (D-Providence) announced on Wednesday, April 27, he will sponsor a civil unions bill.

A bill that makes Delaware the eighth state to allow civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples has cleared the legislature and Gov. Jack Markell said Thursday he looks forward to signing the measure into law.

The state House on Thursday approved a bill offering legal recognition to same-sex couples in Delaware and giving them the same rights and obligations granted to married couples while a bill allowing same-sex civil unions cleared the Senate.

It wasn’t so long ago that simply being gay in the Republic of Ireland made one a criminal. On April 5, the civil union of two men in a committed life partnership marked how far GLTBs in that nation have come.

Colorado lawmakers killed a bill that would have provided gay and lesbian families in that state with legal protections in the form of civil unions.

Delaware’s state senate is set to mull civil unions, and an anti-gay Illinois amendment has been relegated to the dustbin. But Indiana’s anti-gay amendment is on track to go before voters--and Montana lawmakers failed to take an anti-gay law off the books

GLBT equality advocates in Delaware have announced that they are aiming to see a bill brought to state lawmakers that would extend civil unions to gay and lesbian families. An anti-gay group is already working to kill the bill.