Original sentence: "  Pipkin and Gilchrest voted to fund a free needle program for drug addicts.Pipkin voted for a bill to establish a state registry for gay "life partners
Edited sentence: Pipkin and Gilchrest voted to fund a free needle program for drug addicts.Pipkin voted for a bill to establish a state registry for gay "life partners" which was viewed by many as a first step toward legalizing homosexual marriage and civil unions