http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111025/NEWS/110250406/-1/NEWSMAPCONCORD — Both sides of a contentious debate on marriage equality will square off in Concord today.
The House Judiciary Committee will consider House Bill 437 to repeal same-sex marriage, which became legal just last year. The bill also would allow civil unions for any unmarried adults competent to enter into a contract — including relatives.
The bill's sponsor, state Rep. David Bates, R-Windham, told the Herald on Monday the latest push to repeal gay marriage is meant to correct what he said was a mistake made by the Legislature in 2009.
"I, and many people in New Hampshire, believe that those who pushed through this law in 2009 simply did not have the right to redefine marriage for our entire society," Bates said.
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