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The amendment faces another vote March 29, then another next year before being brought to voters in 2006. Should the amendment pass two years from now, there is no decision on how to address the likely thousands of same-sex marriage that will begin being issued on May 17.

Bush speaks to National Association of Evangelicals:

• Bush denounces gay marriage in address to evangelical Christians | President Bush told evangelical Christians what they wanted to hear Thursday, ticking off highlights of his "compassionate conservative" agenda, including halting late-term abortions and banning gay marriage. (The Advocate, gay magazine)
  
  
• Bush tells evangelicals he will fight gay marriage | President Bush on Thursday sought to solidify his standing with evangelical Christians by restating support for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage as part of his championship of conservative causes. Bush, himself a born-again Christian, told the National Association of Evangelicals Convention in Colorado via satellite from the White House. (Reuters)
  
  
• Bush highlights record in talk to evangelical Christians | President Bush told evangelical Christians what they wanted to hear Thursday, ticking off highlights of his "compassionate conservative" agenda, from halting late-term abortions to banning gay marriage. (USA Today)
  
  
• Bush tells evangelicals he will fight gay marriage | President Bush on Thursday sought to solidify his standing with evangelical Christians by restating support for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage as part of his championship of conservative causes. (Reuters)
  
  

Mass. gay marriage amendment:

• Massachusetts Nears Same-Sex Marriage Ban | The Massachusetts Legislature moved closer Thursday to adopting a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and establish civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Gay marriage ban wins preliminary approval in Mass.; Calif. court blocks gay marriages | Massachusetts lawmakers gave preliminary approval Thursday to a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but allow civil unions. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mass. legislators ok gay marriage amendment | Massachusetts lawmakers gave preliminary approval Thursday to a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but allow civil unions. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Gay Marriage Stalls in Calif., Mass. | The California Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for at least a few months while it decides whether they are legal, prompting some disappointed couples to leave City Hall in tears. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Marriage Ban Clears Hurdle | A small contingent of Harvard students joined thousands of demonstrators on Boston Common yesterday as the State Legislature granted preliminary approval to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. (Harvard Crimson)
  
  
• Same-sex spotlight on Massachusetts | The gay-marriage debate has roiled in states and cities from California to tiny New Palz, New York, but none with as much at stake as Massachusetts, the first state whose highest court has ruled that gays have a consitutional right to wed. (Associated Press)
  
  

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