A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions is headed to the Senate floor after passing out of the Senate Judiciary Committee 7-3.
The committee voted down an amendment that would have limited the ban only to same-sex marriage, leaving the door open for Indiana to legalize civil unions in the future.
Thirty states have constitutional bans on marriage. Twenty also ban civil unions in their constitutions.
The measure has already passed in the Indiana House. The legislature will have to approve the bill a second time by 2014 in order to get it on that year's ballot, the earliest voters would see it.
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