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Friday, September 2, 2005

From California, A Bit of Good News

Posted by on September 2 at 9:00 AM

While the rest of the country obsessed over the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and our government’s shameful failure to respond to said horrors, yesterday the California Senate voted in favor of gay marriage, becoming the first legislative body in the nation to back the extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples. (Massachusetts’s pro-gay-marriage position was established via court rulings.)

Full story here.