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Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), a Tea Party freshman who earned liberal ire for a television ad that said she would fight a Muslim "victory mosque" at Ground Zero, said in a surprise announcement this weekend that she opposes a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state.

Ellmers said that while she opposes same-sex marriages, she believes the proposed amendment goes too far because it would also ban civil unions.

"Congresswoman Ellmers has always believed that marriage is a sacred institution and is defined as the union between one man and one woman," Ellmers spokesman Tom Doheny wrote in an email to the Raleigh News & Observer. "That is why she has and will continue to protect and defend marriage at the federal level.

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