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Published
02/01/06
Amid pounding fists, cursing from the audience and emotional speeches about civil rights and "cowardice," hundreds of people yesterday split along political and religious lines over a bill to outlaw gay marriage in Maryland. Find Us On Facebook
The tension erupted early in the five-hour hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in Annapolis, when Del. Don Dwyer, R-Glen Burnie, testified in favor of his bill that would amend the state constitution to define marriage as only being between a man and a woman. "One of the arguments that we're hearing regularly is that this is a civil right, that a black man or a black woman cannot change the color...
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