DELAY EYED ON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT IN MA: From the Boston Globe

State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini will delay next month's momentous vote on a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages if the state's high court has not already issued its opinion on the constitutionality of a civil unions bill, top legislative officials said yesterday.

Travaglini has told several aides and colleagues that it would be premature to push forward until the Legislature learns whether the bill establishing civil unions for gay couples would satisfy the Supreme Judicial Court ruling of Nov. 18 on gay marriage. The Senate passed the civil unions bill last month and sought an advisory opinion from the high court to determine whether it met the conditions of the SJC's historic ruling that declared gays have the right to marry. All sides of the debate
filed briefs yesterday with the SJC. The court's ruling declaring gay marriages constitutional is set to go into effect May 17.

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