Constitutional Ban of Same-Sex Marriage Fails
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Supporters of an initiative to amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage said they didn’t get enough signatures to qualify the measure for the June ballot.
The supporters of the “Protect Marriage” initiative failed to gather the 598,105 signatures they needed by Tuesday’s deadline, said Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for the campaign.
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