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Sidwell was part of a delegation of about 10 Harvard College Democrats—including a handful culled from Monday’s activities fair—who traveled to Beacon Hill to oppose a constitutional amendment that would have banned marriage between people of the same sex while authorizing...
“Pretty much everybody went knowing that we’d likely defeat the amendment,” said Michael J. Robin ’08, another Dems member who demonstrated outside the State House. “We wanted to go anyway just for the symbolic value...
Legislators first took up Wednesday’s defeated amendment in March 2004, when it passed by a 105-92 margin. Under Massachusetts law, the proposal had to be approved by two consecutive legislatures before being presented to voters for a final decision in 2006.
“Gay marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the citizens of the Commonwealth, with the exception of those who can now marry,” State Sen. Brian Lees, a Republican who co-sponsored the original amendment, said on Wednesday. “This amendment...
The Massachusetts Family Institute is one of the groups championing a petition for a new amendment, which would ban both same-sex marriages and same-sex civil unions. If the petition drive collects 65,000 signatures, the amendment could go before voters in 2008.