Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Same-sex marriage ban advances in Massachusetts

Just got this update from advocatemagazine.com. A little deflating to hear.

Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where same-sex marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that could effectively ban the practice. The amendment’s backers had collected 170,000 signatures to get a question on the 2008 ballot asking voters to declare marriage to be between only a man and a woman, but they still needed the approval of legislators in two consecutive sessions.

for the rest of the article go here

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