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How Wyoming beat an anti-SSM amendment:
Michael Petrelis has some interesting reporting and links on the opposition to the anti-SSM amendment that was defeated in the Wyoming legislature on Friday. It included an openly lesbian House...
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A Red State surprise
Daimnation! — ... , thanks largely to an openly gay Democrat (who says she's "too lazy" to stay in the closet) and a Mormon Republican who doesn't agree with his Church's political involvement with the issue. (via The Volokh Conspiracy) ...

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