Equality Delaware -- a newly formed statewide group -- on Thursday unveiled the first campaign in Delaware to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.
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The proposal would apply only to same-sex couples, she said, establishing a parallel relationship to marriage, which would remain limited to opposite-sex couples. Advocates estimated about 700 couples in Delaware might enter civil unions within the first few years after the law took effect.
"We believe right now that we have a great confluence of timing," she said. "Public opinion is strongly in favor of civil unions and we believe we have more than sufficient votes in both houses of the General Assembly to pass a civil union bill."
Goodman said Equality Delaware brings together a coalition of people who have worked for the past two decades on anti-discrimination legislation in the state.
"We've had lots of opportunity to talk to and educate both the public and legislators," she said. "It has been really gratifying to see the movement in people's thinking and understanding about the lack of protection that gay families have under current law."
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