GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS LOOK TO THE COURTS: From the Seattle Times

...With the losses behind them, gay-rights activists now look to state courts, where they've enjoyed more success. Lawsuits over gay marriage are moving through courts in a handful of states, including New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

The Washington Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments early next year in a consolidated suit in which two Superior Court judges separately ruled in favor of gay marriage.

And in Georgia, gay-marriage proponents have already filed a legal challenge to that state's newly approved constitutional gay-marriage ban, which voters backed by a margin of 77 to 23 percent Tuesday.

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