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Article: Amendment banning gay marriage fails in Senate.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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Byline: Craig Gilbert
WASHINGTON _ While backers of a gay marriage ban have triumphed at the ballot box in state after state, they failed Wednesday for the second time in two years to pass a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and woman, making little headway since the Senate's last vote on the issue in 2004.
"We're not going to stop until marriage between a man and woman is respected," Kansas Republican Sam Brownback said.
Only 49 senators voted to move ahead with the amendment on a test vote Wednesday, far short of the 60 needed to keep the measure alive and the 67 needed to amend the Constitution. A similar ...