COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office certified petition titles and summaries for two proposed constitutional amendments that were once part of a singular effort to enshrine equal rights in the Ohio Constitution on Friday, moving the initiatives closer to potential ballot placement.

The original, singular proposal would have added new equal rights protections to the Ohio Constitution to a wide range of protected classes and would have also extended those equal rights protections to marriage, removing existing language from an unenforceable same-sex marriage ban that was approved by voters in 2004 thatremains in the Ohio constitution.

The Ohio Ballot Board determined last month that the original proposal contained multiple amendments, meaning that the equal rights protec

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