Nevada has a constitution amendment that bans same sex marriage but not domestic partnerships. At the strong urging of the casino business (all those drive-through ceremonies), the Nevada legislature passed a DP bill. Governor Gibbon vetoed it. The state Senate and Assembly promptly overrode his veto, getting exactly the two-thirds votes they needed.
Senator David Parks, D-Las Vegas, the openly gay sponsor of SB283, said it's "about fairness and equality," and that it doesn't diminish the "sanctity of marriage." I'm glad someone on our side used that phrase. Otherwise it would sound really dumb. Who in Las Vegas has been concerned with the sanctity of marriage?
The top of this Wikipedia entry is the best map I've seen that shows gay marriage rights by state.
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