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A (federal) case for marriage: as an all-star legal team mounts an ambitious federal challenge to California's Proposition 8, the future of national marriage equality weighs heavily on its shoulders.
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS are often made of strange bedfellows. Just ask Chad Griffin, the Los Angeles-based political consultant and an emerging gay rights activist.
At 36, Griffin is the main instigator behind a high-profile and contentious federal lawsuit to overturn California's Proposition 8. The suit was filed in May on behalf of a gay male couple in Burbank and a lesbian couple in Berkeley who were denied marriage licenses. Griffin's stated goal--to establish national marriage equality--mirrors that of gay organizations that have laid the intensive groundwork through years of legal battles...See the full content of this document
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