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Title: Group organizes in Orlando against proposed ban on same-sex marriage
Post by: Shana A on January 16, 2008, 07:10:49 AM
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"Group organizes in Orlando against proposed ban on same-sex marriage

Willoughby Mariano |  Sentinel Staff Writer
    January 16, 2008

A national gay-rights group came to Orlando on Tuesday to launch a statewide effort against a proposed ban on same-sex marriage.

The Human Rights Campaign held the first of a series of training sessions for gay-rights volunteers at a Thornton Park eatery, despite word from the state that a proposed constitutional amendment backed by Orlando's Florida4Marriage was more than 20,000 signatures short of making the November ballot."