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Article: Ripples spread as states vote on same-sex marriage; Kansas joined 17 other states this week with a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
The question of same-sex marriage is spreading across the country as a showdown issue involving courts, lawmakers, and activists. And it's not just a spectator event, since much of the public in many states is involved as well.
The latest episode was a ballot measure this week in Kansas, where voters by a wide margin (70 to 30 percent) ordered a change to the state constitution defining marriage as "one man and one woman only." More significantly perhaps, the measure also states that other than a married man and woman "no relationship ... shall be recognized by the state as ...