Just a day after President Obama made his historic declaration standing up for gay marriage rights in an interview with ABC, the St. Petersburg City Council got back to work on its proposed domestic partnership registry. At its meeting yesterday, the council voted to approve a draft of the ordinance and will vote on its final approval within the next month.
Similar to a measure passed in Tampa this past March, the registry would cost unmarried couples — both straight and gay — a small fee and would provide them with the right to visit each other in the hospital and make medical decisions for one another, including end-of-life decisions, as well as funeral arrangements.
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.