As expected, the New Hampshire Senate has passed revised gay marriage legislation and sent it to the House. If if passes there, Gov. John Lynch is expected to sign it into law later Wednesday, making New Hampshire the sixth state to allow gays to marry. The bill would expand religious protections needed to win Lynch’s signature on the package. Lynch said he would veto gay marriage if the law didn’t clearly spell out that churches and religious groups would not be forced to officiate at gay marriages or to provide services, facilities and goods of any kind to participants.

Read the full story from the Boston Herald.