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On Thursday St. Pl, the Mnota Hoe will vote on a bill that would legalize gay marriage, pendg passage the state Senate, and Gov. Mark Dayton's signature. If the bill be law, Mnota will be the 12th state to enact marriage… * mn gay marriage bill *

By 2004, gay marriage opponents were phg for more. Michele Bachmann, then a state senator, lnched a multi-year effort to get the Legislature to put a nstutnal amendment before voters statewi that would have strengthened Mnota's existg law agast gay marriage by addg to the state nstutn.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE: HOE TO VOTE ON BILL THURSDAY

The bill was signed to law one ago, two years before the Supreme Court regnized gay marriag every state. * mn gay marriage bill *

A former Senate Democratic lear, Dean Johnson of Willmar, even lost his legislative seat after Republins highlighted his repeated thwartg of the ph agast gay marriage. But Republins fally had full ntrol of the Legislature 2011, and they promptly moved the nstutnal gay marriage ban to the 2012 statewi ballot. The amendment failed on an Electn Day that also saw Democrats retake full ntrol of the Legislature, and the mpaign that formed to feat the amendment quickly turned s nsirable rourc to phg legal gay marriage at the Capol.

MNOTA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE: GOV. MARK DAYTON SIGNS BILL INTO LAW

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A recent analysis of the gay marriage bill by Mnota Management and Budget predicted that jt over half those upl, or about 5, 200, would be married the first year after the bill is enacted. That analysis also anticipated that eventually, some gay upl will get divorced too. It predicted 86 divorce filgs by gay upl 2015 and siar numbers ensug years.

Legal gay marriage is expected to slightly raise sts for state employee health surance programs, but also raise a small amount om a spike the sale of marriage licens. State to legalize gay marriage, and the first the Midwt to do so by legislative vote. The other stat where gay marriage is legal are Connecticut, Iowa (due to a 2009 urt lg), Mae, Maryland, Massachetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washgton.

THE NEW GAY MARRIAGE BILL

Mnota's Senate is schled to bate and vote Monday on a bill to add the state to the growg list of those that allow gay marriage. It's the last step before Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, who has promised to sign legislatn. * mn gay marriage bill *

In addn, a handful of stat stop short of gay marriage but allow civil unns between gay upl.

Supreme Court heard arguments on challeng to both a feral law prohibg gay marriage and to the 2008 California referendum that overturned that state's law allowg gay marriage. A lg is expected this summer, and uld eher hasten or slow down the spread of legal gay marriage the U.

Gay marriage has also been spreadg worldwi recent years.

MN. SENATE READI FOR GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

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A pivotal vote Thursday posned Mnota to bee the 12th state the untry to allow gay marriag and the first the midwt to pass such a law out of s 75-59 Hoe vote was a cril step for the measure, which would allow same-sex weddgs begng this summer.

"My fay knew first-hand that same-sex upl pay our tax, we vote, we serve the ary, we take re of our kids and our elrs and we n bs Mnota, " said the bill's sponsor, Karen Clark, a Mneapolis Democrat who is gay.

"I do believe God, and I believe God already created the perfect way to have a fay, " Komar gay marriage supporters also boasted fah lears their ranks. "Eleven other stat allow gay marriag — cludg Rho Island and Delaware, which approved laws the past week. Mnota would be the first state the Midwt to pass the measure out of the allows gay marriag bee of a 2009 urt lg.

MNOTA SET TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE AFTER HOE APPROV BILL

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Lears Illois — the only midwtern state other than Mnota wh a Democratic-led statehoe — say that state is close to havg the vot to approve a law most other stat surroundg Mnota have nstutnal bans agast same-sex weddgs, so the change might not spread to the natn's heartland nearly as quickly as has on the asts and New Mnota ph for gay marriage grew out of last fall's succsful mpaign to feat a nstutnal amendment that would have banned .

Mnota beme the first state to turn back such an amendment after more than two dozen stat had passed one over more than a same electn put Democrats full ntrol of state ernment for the first time more than two s, a perfect scenar for gay marriage supporters to swiftly pursue legalizatn. They tapped the cross-sectn of cizens, bs, church and others who spoke out agast the amendment and staged ralli as part of a lobbyg effort to build bill cleared mte both chambers March, and wh a succsn of natnal polls showg opposn to gay marriage fallg away natnally.

"As Amerins have had a chance to really talk about who gay people are and why marriage matters, and thk about their personal valu of fairns, we have grown to a signifint natnal majory favor of the eedom to marry, " said Evan Wolfson, founr and print of the natnal gay rights group Freedom to November, voters Mae, Maryland and Washgton state approved same-sex marriage at the same time that Mnota voters rejected a ballot proposal to put a ban on same-sex marriage the state then, advot of same-sex marriage had never been succsful at the ballot box, and voters more than two dozen stat had approved nstutnal amendments fg marriage as a unn between a man and a Island on May 2 beme the last of the six New England stat to approve same-sex marriage. The Illois Senate approved a gay marriage bill on Valente's Day Febary, but the measure has not been voted on the full Hoe.

MNOTA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE SET IN STATE LEGISLATURE

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Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Mnota? Mnota's legalizatn of gay marriage has one church feelg pretty happy. Jay Bakker thought the bread - and the state's embrace of gay rights - tasted "kd of sweet.