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Mass. Moves Toward Gay Marriage Compromise

NPR | By Tovia Smith
Published March 12, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST
Gay rights activists crowd the corridors of the Massachusetts statehouse Thursday night, as legislators debate a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Tovia Smith, NPR
Gay rights activists crowd the corridors of the Massachusetts statehouse Thursday night, as legislators debate a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

The Massachusetts state legislature gave preliminary approval to a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage and establish civil unions instead. NPR's Tovia Smith reports.

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Tovia Smith
Tovia Smith is an award-winning NPR National Correspondent based in Boston, who's spent more than three decades covering news around New England and beyond.
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