California lawmakers to take up same-sex marriage bill

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            lawmakers to take up same-sex marriage bill
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Aug 15, 2005
          
        
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       California
            legislators return on Monday from a monthlong recess to
            wrap up their 2005 session with four hectic weeks of
            lawmaking, facing       issues that include same-sex
            marriage. The assembly narrowly rejected a       bill in
            June that would have legalized same-sex marriages in
            California,       but supporters kept the issue alive by
            attaching it to a bill pending in       the senate. That
            bill is scheduled to be considered Monday by the senate
            appropriations committee, along with more than 300 other
            measures.     

        
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