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steelmania75 Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 02:09 PM
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A Push is on for Same-Sex Marriage Rights in New England
BOSTON — The Iowa Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage on Friday gave advocates an important first victory in the nation’s heartland, thwarting the notion that only the Northeast will accept it.

But for now, New England remains the nucleus of the same-sex marriage movement, with a campaign under way to extend marriage rights to gay men and lesbians in all six of the region’s states by 2012.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/us/05marriage.html?_r=1&ref=politics
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