Instead of celebrating their love and relationships this Valentine's Day, a student group at the University of Wyoming, known as the Queer Advocacy Network, will be protesting.
The group is hoping to persuade Wyoming lawmakers not to pass two bills that will instruct Wyoming courts to ignore same-sex marriages and civil unions performed in other states. The group is also protesting the defeat of other bills in state legislature that would have updated state law to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity, and made same-sex marriage and civil unions legal.
“In light of all the stuff that’s going on in the Legislature right now, we decided that we should probably make a statement,” UW student Jeremy Adkins, the founder and president of QAN, said. “We figured the best way to make that statement is by having a protest.”
The group will march from the UW Simpson Plaza to the corner of Third and Grand. It's unclear whether or not lawmakers can be swayed, so a few civilly joined couples will discuss how the passage of the laws coming up for vote will affect their families with the hope that they will be heard.
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The group is hoping to persuade Wyoming lawmakers not to pass two bills that will instruct Wyoming courts to ignore same-sex marriages and civil unions performed in other states. The group is also protesting the defeat of other bills in state legislature that would have updated state law to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity, and made same-sex marriage and civil unions legal.
“In light of all the stuff that’s going on in the Legislature right now, we decided that we should probably make a statement,” UW student Jeremy Adkins, the founder and president of QAN, said. “We figured the best way to make that statement is by having a protest.”
The group will march from the UW Simpson Plaza to the corner of Third and Grand. It's unclear whether or not lawmakers can be swayed, so a few civilly joined couples will discuss how the passage of the laws coming up for vote will affect their families with the hope that they will be heard.
Good luck, you guys. Our thoughts are with you.
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