House Defeats Gay-Marriage-Ban Amendment; Measure States That Marriage Shall Consist Only of a Man, Woman

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › October 01, 2004

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run- up to Election Day.

The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled.

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House Defeats Gay-Marriage-Ban Amendment; Measure States That Marriage Shall Consist Only of a Man, Woman

"God created Adam and Eve. He didn't create Adam and Steve," said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., on behalf of a measure that supporters said was designed to protect an institution a...

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