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People celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 26, after same sex marriage license in massachusetts state in Torquay historic decision on gay marriage. At the end of March, after extended debate [57] and some tactical voting in which some legislators backed measures they would not ultimately support in order to prevent the adoption of an even stronger measure, the convention passed by a vote of an amendment to ban same-sex marriage but allow civil unions.
It also specified that civil unions should not be treated as marriages for federal purposes. Start the day smarter. Pew Research Center. Governor Bill Weld said he would be willing to meet with the group and said he was undecided on the question. The amendment received 62 "for" votes in Constitutional Convention and thereby cleared its first hurdle toward ratification.
Views Read Edit View history. An amendment that would forbid same-sex marriage, establish civil unions for same-sex couples conveying the same rights and responsibilities as marriage, and convert existing same-sex marriages into civil unions passed the first constitutional convention but was defeated in the second.
Archived from the original on June 30, We're only asking you to declare what their constitutional obligations are. Historians and legal scholars believe it originated in an upsurge of anti-miscegenation sentiment associated with the notoriety of champion boxer Jack Johnson's marriages to white women.
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