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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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