20 Heartwarming Photos From Puerto Rico’s Mass Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony

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Over 60 same-sex couples celebrated Sunday afternoon in the Old San Juan district.

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See more at the link!

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1. So what's the statehood situation? What impact, pro/con, would statehood have on the bankruptcy?

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2. .

Old article but it kind of answers the question?

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/244609-statehood-movement-for-puerto-rico-is-growing-everywhere

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3. My real question is, who/why in P.R. objects to statehood. Here's Wiki:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statehood_movement_in_Puerto_Rico

On December 11, 2012, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico enacted a concurrent resolution to request the President and the Congress of the United States to respond diligently and effectively, and to act on the demand of the people of Puerto Rico, as freely and democratically expressed in the referendum held on November 6, 2012, to end its current status as a territory and to begin the process to admit Puerto Rico to the Union as a state.[1]

In 2014, resolutions were introduced in both houses of the United States Congress (H.R. 2000; S. 2020) to hold a yes-or-no referendum among Puerto Rican residents on statehood, with a "yes" majority compelling the President to submit legislation enacting Puerto Rican statehood.[2][3] Both resolutions died in committee.[4]


Voters chose not to alter the status quo in referenda held in 1967, 1993, and 1998. A 2012 referendum, discussed below, produced a more equivocal result.[5] ....

2012 statehood vote[edit]Main article: Puerto Rican status referendum, 2012
On November 6, 2012, eligible voters in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico were presented with two questions. First, when asked to approve or reject Puerto Rico's current status as a commonwealth (or territory), voters rejected it 54% to 46%.

Second, when then asked to choose their preferred status for Puerto Rico, 61.15% of those who marked an option chose statehood in the United States, while 24% of ballots were submitted blank. The preferred status consultation did not include Puerto Rico's current status as a territory (Estado Libre Asociado as defined by the 1952 Constitution) as a choice, but instead an alternative named "E.L.A. Soberano"[7] President Barack Obama has pledged to respect the voters' decision.[8] In December 2012, newspaper Caribbean Business allegedly obtained, from a White House source, a statement claiming that Obama urged Congress to act upon the referendum's results.[9] On August 1, 2013, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Puerto Rico's status as a direct result of the 2012 referendum vote and invited Governor Alejandro García Padilla, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, and pro-independence supporter Rubén Berríos to give testimony and answer questions from the committee.[10]

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