And -- for all the sweeping reforms it provides for same-sex couples and their families -- it came in the shadow of a Supreme Court decision that took Voting Rights away from other Americans.
The Connecticut decision, which elicited strong dissenting opinions from three justices, also opened the door to marriage a bit wider for gay couples in New York, where state laws do not provide for same-sex marriages or civil unions, although Gov. David A. Paterson recently issued an executive order requiring government agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
In March, Focus on the Family, the Colorado-based religious group, published full-page ads in newspapers here criticizing the bill providing for same-sex unions as "an attack on every traditional family and marriage in Canada," and warning that it "would strip the institution of marriage of any special status in Canadian law".
Having noted the states'-rights provision in Section 2 (which is not under challenge), Verrilli writes, "[B]ecause Section 3 imposes no restriction on the ability of any state to provide for same-sex marriage, it does not substantially further any interest in preserving 'traditional, heterosexual' marriage".
The less care a private insurance company provides for the same premiums, the higher their profits.
At IID PLHIV pay out of pocket for subsidized antiretrovirals (ARVs) and laboratory tests, while National Health Services (NHS) provides for the same at RFH.
Each of the options before the supervisors provides for housing the same number of mentally ill inmates in the jail as are currently housed there: more than 3,000.
One million 10MW windfarms, with a combined generating capacity of around 1 Terrawatt could be provided for the same money, the European Renewable Energy Foundation estimates.
The commission will be able to compare the quality of care provided for the same amount of money in different parts of the country, Ms Platt told the national social services conference in Brighton.
The bill would provide for the same amount of money to be channeled into Medicare out of general tax revenues, thereby, leaving Medicare unharmed by the change, Republicans said.
But, whose responsibility is it to provide for the same?
