Legal, civil rights arguments fuel gay marriage debate

Thursday, March 4, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Saying same-sex marriages are likely to spread across America like a "wildfire," Republican senators, including Majority Leader Bill Frist, exhorted Congress Wednesday to embrace a constitutional amendment banning them.

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