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Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage Killed

Date: July 15, 2004
Location: CBS Studios
Issues: Marriage


Proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage killed

The Osgood File (Various Times) - CBS

July 15, 2004 Thursday

REPORTERS: CHARLES OSGOOD

BODY:
CHARLES OSGOOD reporting:

For now, anyway, the initiative to amend the US Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman has been killed.

Senator LISA MURKOWSKI: On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 50, three fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.

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