Watch Live Now: Debate On Banning Same-Sex Marriage In Indiana Constitution
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Right now, the Indiana House Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony and will debate and vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.
As The New Civil Rights Movement reported last week, a Republican state representative has introduced a bill to ban in the Indiana constitution not only same-sex marriage but legal status for any same-sex union in the state. Rep. Eric Turner, who is up for re-election this year, has introduced HJR-3, which would not only define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, but would actually remove current protections for same-sex couples.
But the bill’s mean-spiritedness may be its undoing.
“A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized,†the bill also states — effectively barring future civil unions or domestic partnerships, even for opposite-sex couples.
Watch live here.

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