MPR’s Tom Scheck reports that a committee in the Minnesota Senate has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and its legal equivalents in Minnesota.
The committee voted down a different version of the proposed amendment that has generated so much controversy in recent years. The newer version would have prohibited the judicial branch from defining marriage, reserving that power for the Legislature. The new measure failed on a 5-4 party line vote, with all DFLers voting against it.