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Article: Senate blocks gay marriage amendment.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 15, 2004
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Byline: Jim Puzzanghera
WASHINGTON _ President Bush and supporters of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage suffered an embarrassing defeat Wednesday when the proposal failed to get even a simple majority in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The amendment lost with 50 senators voting to block it and 48 voting to advance it on a procedural vote, leaving backers 19 votes shy of the two-thirds majority they eventually would need to pass a constitutional amendment saying marriage can be only between one man and one woman.
"The president and the Republican leadership's attempt to divide the country backfired and instead it divided the ...