Agudath Israel said it would work to change the Massachusetts state and the U.S. Constitutions to restrict marriage to heterosexual unions. The state’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the state constitution will be fulfilled only if full marriage rights are granted as well to same-sex couples.
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