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Article: Can Mass. dodge marriage?(Legislation)(equal marriage rights)(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2004
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A year ago it might have seemed that only a remarkable turn of events would have had conservative lawmakers in Massachusetts clamoring to pass a civil unions bill. But that's what's happening now in response to the Massachusetts supreme judicial court's November rifling that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. With the court having ordered the legislature to come up with some sort of remedy, lawmakers have presented a civil unions bill to ...
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... ... saw Dean's support for civil unions as courageous. Social conservatives, who called civil unions "gay marriage with another ... couples should have equal marriage rights and that only marriage--not civil unions--would be acceptable ...
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