MICHIGAN AMENDMENT HEADS TO THE COURTS: From MLive.com

The courts will decide not only whether a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and possibly civil unions, is on the Nov. 2 ballot, but the ballot wording as well.

The Michigan Board of Canvassers deadlocked for the third time along party lines this week by declining Friday to approve ballot language proposed by its own state elections staff.

Judges on the Michigan Court of Appeals and Michigan Supreme Court will have the final say next week.

Also before the courts is the board's Tuesday refusal to certify more than 464,000 valid signatures collected by the Citizens for the Protection of Marriage to put the gay marriage amendment on the ballot.

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