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Source: Boston Globe , South Coast Today Boston -- The state attorney general today approved paperwork filed by opponents of same-sex marriages who are pushing a statewide referendum that would reinstate a 1913 statute that prevented gay and lesbian couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union...

Source: Boston Globe , Bay Windows Boston -- With the stroke of the pen, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick opened the borders of the Commonwealth to out-of-state same-sex couples hoping to marry. Surrounded by cheering, clapping gay-rights activists and legislators, Patrick today signed a bill repealing...

Source: Boston Globe , New York Times , Hartford Courant Boston -- In a major victory for advocates of same-sex marriage rights, the Massachusetts House voted by a wide margin yesterday to repeal a 95-year-old law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from most other states from marrying here, setting...

Source: Belmont Citizen Herald , Boston Herald A vote last week in the Massachusetts Senate to repeal a 95-year-old law that has been used to block out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts prompted celebration from gay rights supporters and scorn from opponents, but a similar vote in the...

Source: Bay Windows , New York Times BOSTON -- Massachusetts may have been the first state to legalize same-sex marriage for its residents, but when California last month invited out-of-state gay and lesbian couples to get married, the potential economic benefits did not go unnoticed here. Now Massachusetts...

Source: seaQwa's Qnews A report today carried on the social conservative news site, Cybercast News Service, indicates that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney still hasn't convinced all social conservatives that he's fully behind their anti-gay agenda. The story by Cybercast reporters...

Source: Associated Press via Boston Globe BOSTON (AP) Religious leaders who took opposing sides in the state's turbulent gay marriage debate have found something to bring them together again: Casino gambling. Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal to bring three casinos to Massachusetts has united religious...

Source: Boston Globe The Boston-based legal advocacy group that helped make gay marriage a fact of life in Massachusetts is girding for a fight to expand the rights of same-sex married couples. For more than a year, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has quietly surveyed the nearly 10,000 same...