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  Mass. lawmakers vote on gay marriage
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Last EditedThe Sunset Provision  Jan 02, 2007 01:54pm
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News DateTuesday, January 2, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionLawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that would effectively ban it.

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 a man and a woman, but they still needed the approval of two consecutive legislatures.

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