Activists seek the repeal of a nstutnal amendment that bans same-sex marriage Oh, but other gay rights lears utn that “2014 is not the year.”
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OH GAY-MARRIAGE PH DIVIS SOME ADVOT
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OH WILL HAVE TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAG, JUDGE SAYS
“We believe that if you’re gog to put yourself on the ballot, you want to make sure you n w, ” said Evan Wolfson, print of Freedom to Marry, a natnal advocy a recent strg of favorable urt lgs Oklahoma, Utah and Virgia, where judg overturned same-sex marriage bans, many gay rights advot see their bt opportuny for victory the urts — or perhaps the electorate of 2016. ” That is jt what supporters of a vote Oh argue, and they say the tablished gay rights groups urgg utn have lost touch wh the grass roots.
In Oh, he is lookg ahead to 2016, when Senator Rob Portman, the Republin who reversed his posn on same-sex marriage after his son me out as gay, will be up for re-electn. Premo of Why Marriage Matters, the aln of state and natnal gay rights groups opposed to a vote this year, said support was really below 50 percent.
Brenda Millhoe, another volunteer, said the opposn of some gay rights groups had phed her to actn. ”Trip Gabriel reported om Columb, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg om Washgton.