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The convention met again the subsequent day and defeated an amendment that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman and disavowed any position on civil unions on a 103-94 vote that showed divisions in every get together and Catholic legislators evenly divided. When the large day arrived, August 23, 1962, the scene that greeted bride Cynthia Powell inside the registry workplace more carefully resembled a funeral. And the primary popular fallacy concerning the psychology of religion which we must expose is the concept ladies are in a really large proportion extra religious than males. Governor Mitt Romney authored an op-ed within the Wall Street Journal that called the most recent SJC ruling "wrongly determined and deeply mistaken", backed a state constitutional amendment and urged other states to take related action, but didn't endorse the idea of a federal constitutional modification. On March 31, Romney took the place that no other states recognized identical-sex marriage and therefore residents of other states couldn't marry in Massachusetts. His spokesman introduced he was sending letters to the governors and attorneys normal of the opposite states to elucidate his view that same-sex marriage was not authorized of their state and asking "if we're wrong" about that. |
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