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...proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but allowing civil unions passed a vote of the legislature last year. The proposal needs the vote of a newly-elected legislature in 2005-06 before it could be put to voters in a referendum...
Yesterday afternoon’s celebration came one year after the city allowed same-sex couples to file for marriage licenses at midnight on May 17, 2004—the first moment when a landmark state court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage went into effect...
Granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples “fulfilled our mission to fight for freedom for all,” said Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 before the ceremony. Reeves said the fact that Cambridge was the first city in the nation to offer those licenses was ”perfectly apropos” for Cambridge’s liberal reputation...
...year and 638 licenses later, Cambridge politicians, families, and supporters gathered yesterday at City Hall to celebrate the anniversary of legal same-sex marriage while also reflecting on the uncertain future of those rights in Massachusetts...
...member, Joshua D. Smith ’08, says he believes support for same-sex marriage will “eventually be one of the national platform issues....Eventually—I’m not saying when—it will be adopted...