Morning Sweep

Students at Cornell are rallying behind a fellow student who was asked to step down from his leadership role in a campus Christian group after he told them he had accepted his homosexuality.

New Hampshire’s Senate judiciary committee has recommended against the state’s marriage equality bill, but the full Senate will still have the opportunity to vote on it. The vote has already passed in the state’s House of Representatives.

Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has become the first Gov. to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law after the CT legislature voted to align state statues with the recent Supreme Court decision allowing for marriage equality there.