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BREAKING: Minn. governor signs marriage equality bill — ‘Love is the law’
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Mark Dayton has signed the state’s marriage equality bill into law, making Minnesota the 12th U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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As signing ceremony approaches, Minn. marriage bill sponsors say ‘It’s personal’
ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Gov. Mark Dayton adds his signature to the bill legalizing gay marriage in Minnesota later Tuesday, its two main sponsors will stand triumphantly beside him admiring the fruits of their long and often demoralizing struggle for gay rights.
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Minn. governor to sign bill legalizing same-sex marriage
ST. PAUL, Minn. — With marriages to be available for Minnesota’s gay couples starting Aug. 1, Duluth residents Gary Anderson and Gary Boelhower are getting ready to do something that seemed impossible when they started dating three years ago: plan a wedding.
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St. Paul, Minn., to throw party to celebrate passage of gay marriage law
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The city of St. Paul is ready to throw a party to celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
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BREAKING: Minn. to become 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Senate voted moments ago to legalize same-sex marriage, the last legislative step before Gov. Mark Dayton’s promised signature will make the state the 12th in the U.S. to do so.
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St. Paul mayor proclaims ‘Freedom to Marry Week,’ renames downtown bridge
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Anticipating a vote in the Minnesota state Senate today that would legalize same-sex marriage, St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman on Monday morning proclaimed “Freedom to Marry Week” in St. Paul and temporarily renamed a downtown bridge the “Freedom to Marry Bridge.”
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UPDATED: Minn. lawmakers prepare for final vote on marriage equality bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Supporters of same-sex marriage in Minnesota taped blue and orange hearts Monday onto the state Capitol steps, creating a path into the building for lawmakers preparing an afternoon vote on whether to allow same-sex weddings starting in August.
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BREAKING: Minn. House approves same-sex marriage bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A pivotal vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law out of its Legislature.
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Crowd of demonstrators grows at Minn. capitol ahead of marriage vote
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Hundreds of people on both sides of the gay marriage issue are expressing their viewpoints at the Minnesota Capitol where the House is expected to cast a historic vote on legislation legalizing same-gender unions.
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UPDATED: Minnesota House stands ready to vote on same-sex marriage bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A gay Minnesota lawmaker leading the push to legalize same-sex weddings in the state told colleagues Thursday that gay couples “contribute to the same Minnesota system as everyone else” and deserve the right to be married.