[raccoonradio]

AP:
BOSTON - Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that would effectively ban it.

The amendment's backers had collected 170,000 signatures to get a question on the 2008 ballot asking voters to declare marriage in Massachusetts to be between a man and a woman, but they still needed the Legislature's approval in two consecutive sessions.

On Tuesday, 61 lawmakers backed moving the measure forward, compared to 132 opposed. The amendment need 50 votes of support to advance.

[gidget7]

I may be daft, but I thought this vote, if we got enough, meant it went on the ballot. Why do I remember this as being the second consecutive session? I don't know.

It is very hard to figure out what in Heaven's name this MA legislature is doing at any given moment.

[Aquinasfan]

On Tuesday, 61 lawmakers backed moving the measure forward, compared to 132 opposed. The amendment need 50 votes of support to advance.

That's a shocker! Good news though. Why didn't they recess again? Were they afraid that Mitt was going to be mean to them?