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COURT OVERTURNS SAME SEX VOTE IN LA
Comments 0 | Recommend 0October 05, 2004 3:18 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ A Louisiana judge has tossed out the
state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Voters had overwhelmingly approved the amendment last month. But
the judge in Baton Rouge says the amendment was flawed because it
covered not only same-sex marriage but civil unions as well.
Some 78 percent of those who went to the polls last month
favored the ban that swept through the state Legislature in the
spring.
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