Politics & Government
Are You A Same-Sex Couple Celebrating the Right to Marry in Johnston?
Are you a gay or lesbian couple celebrating your right to marriage equality in Rhode Island? Share your story on Johnston Patch!
Same-sex couples celebrated their right to marriage equality on Thursday as Rhode Island officially opened marriage to homosexual couples.
Across the state gay and lesbian couples headed to town halls and signed their unions into law - a fight that took more than 16 years to pass through the state legislature.
In Johnston on Thursday, Town Clerk Vincent Baccari reported that one couple applied for a license, and another applied to "merge" the civil union certificate they'd previously received with an official marriage license.
Are you a same-sex couple celebrating your right to marriage in Johnston? Patch wants to hear your story!
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