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Supporters of same-sex marriage have had many victories in recent years, in courts, in state legislatures and at the ballot box.Yet one prize has remained elusive: a reversal by voters in one of the 29 states, mostly in the South and Midwest, with constitutional bans on same-sex marriage.
Activists in Ohio want to see those dominoes start to fall here, and they say they have gathered the signatures for a ballot measure to repeal an amendment adopted by 62 percent of voters in 2004. They point to a tidal shift in public opinion and hope to grasp the symbolism of voters' flipping Ohio a decade after the Republican Party used ballot measures opposing same-sex marriage to drive conservatives to the polls and help re-elect President George W. Bush.
But in a sign of how difficult that quest will be, the activists are opposed by the state's leading gay rights group and by the national gay rights establishment, which announced last week that they did not support putting a same-sex marriage amendment on the ballot this November.
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