TRAVAGLINI PROMISES MASS. VOTE ON MARRIAGE AS ROMNEY MEETS WITH PLAINTIFFS: Excerpted from State House News, which apparently requires registration to read

Senate President Robert Travaglini said
Friday he won't block the Legislature from voting on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

The announcement is significant because the last time the marriage amendment surfaced, in 2002, then-Senate President Thomas Birmingham refused to allow the measure to come to a vote by orchestrating a vote to abruptly adjourn the Constitutional Convention, a joint meeting of the House and Senate. The tactic pleased gay rights advocates but angered supporters of traditional marriage.

The announcement by Travaglini that "there will be a vote on the marriage issue" came on the same day Gov. Mitt Romney met face-to-face in his office with several of the gay and lesbian couples who first brought the marriage
suit to the state's high court. Romney, a staunch opponent of gay marriage, said after the 20-minute meeting in his office that he would continue to push for a constitutional
ban on same-sex marriages. The plaintiffs left Romney's office shaken, telling reporters that Romney was trying to "write discrimination" into the founding document.
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