West Virginia: No Constitutional Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage

The Charleston Daily Mail reports that West Virginia House of Representatives voted down an attempt to consider a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman before the whole House, apparently leaving it stranded in committee for the rest of the year. The vote was nearly perfectly along party lines, with 67 democrats voting to prevent consideration before the full house and 29 republications, and one defecting democrat, voting against it.

Thanks to Towleroad for the story. See their other West Virginia coverage: consideration of a anti-discrimination bill and first LGBT rights group in the state.