Gay Marriage Advocates Draw Massive Rally In Boston

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Gay Marriage Advocates Draw Massive Rally In Boston

(Boston, Massachusetts) A day after 200 conservative Christians converged on the Massachusetts statehouse demanding lawmakers support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, supporters of gay marriage staged their own rally, Thursday, drawing five times as many people.

The demonstration filled the main hall, a balcony and stairways overlooking it, and out the main door onto the steps. It was the largest demonstration the Legislature has seen in years.

"All of us must ensure that there is no discrimination and divisiveness and none should ever be written into our most cherished document, the Constitution," House Majority Leader Salvatore DiMasi (D-Boston) told the crowd. DMasi is House Speaker Thomas Finneran's lieutenant. Finneran is opposed to gay marriage.

Also speaking were Democratic Party Chairman Phil Johnston and several state lawmakers, members of the clergy, and one gay couple who had been together for 48 years.

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Gay Marriage Advocates Draw Massive Rally In Boston