Gay Marriage

Molly McKay, right, of Marriage Equality Rights USA, hugs her partner during a rally inside City Hall in San Francisco, Thursday, May 15, 2008. The California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the biggest U.S. state to wed. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Gay Marriage

A crowd cheers and claps during a rally inside City Hall in San Francisco, Thursday, May 15, 2008, after the California State Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the biggest U.S. state to wed. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Gay Marriage

Adrian Ochoa, 18, left, and Orval Miller, 26, right, exchange vows during their wedding outside the Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder's office in Sacramento, Calif. on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. The couple joined dozens of other gay and lesbian couples to obtain marriage licenses and exchange vows on the first full day same-sex marriages were legal throughout California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gay Marriage

A protest truck against same sex marriages circles around City Hall in San Francisco, Monday, June 16, 2008. Couples readied their formal wear, local licensing clerks expanded their office hours and religious conservatives warned of a backlash as California stood poised to become the second U.S. state to sanction same-sex marriages. Same sex marriages are set to begin after 5 p.m. on Monday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Gay Marriage

Paul Festa, left, and James Harker, right, celebrate as they hold their wedding certificate at City Hall in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. County clerk offices opened their doors Tuesday to hundreds of gay and lesbian couples with appointments to secure marriage licenses and exchange vows on the first full day same-sex nuptials were legal throughout California.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Gay Marriage

Russ Merva holds up a "Yes On 8" sign as a bus emblazoned with "Vote No On Prop 8" passes in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. Both sides of Proposition 8, were out the day before Tuesday's election trying to drum up support. If approved, Prop. 8 would change California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gay Marriage

Peg Oliviera and Jen Vickrey, left, exchange rings as they were married by Appellate Judge Herbert Gruendel outside City Hall in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 soon after a Superior Court Judge ruled marriages between same-sex couple are legal. (AP Photo/Bob Child)

Gay Marriage forms

**FILE** In this May 15, 2008 file photo, Sharon Papo, second from left, and her partner Amber Weiss apply for an appointment for a marriage licence at the county clerks office as Amanda Lee, second from right, and her partner Megan Burritt kiss as they wait in line at City Hall in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court decision last week that legalized gay marriage in California has created a semantic puzzle with scant time to solve it. With the ruling tentatively set to take effect June 16, state bureaucrats must rapidly rewrite, print and distribute a marriage license application. (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar, file)

Gay Marriage Marches

Mataele,right, a member of the San Diego Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints argues a point with, from left, Steve Tweedal, Ray Rodriquez, and Zandro Landeen, on his beliefs with Proposition 8 in front of the San Diego Temple on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, Nancee E. Lewis) ** SAN DIEGO COUNTY OUT, NO SALES, COMMERCIAL INTERNET OUT, FOREIGN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT **

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** CAPTION CORRECTION , CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO CRAFT, NOT CROFT Protestors Patrick Ghougassian, left, and Win Craft protest during the "No on Prop 8" march and rally in front of the Mormon Church in Los Angeles, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Legal experts said it is unclear whether an attempt by gay-rights activists to overturn California's new ban on gay marriage has any chance of success. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Gay Marriage Protest

Rev. Amos Brown, a national board member of the NAACP, raises his hands as he speaks to a large crowd of supporters of same-sex marriage, as they cheer in front of San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Thousands of demonstrators gathered to listen to speakers and protest the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure amending California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The event is part of a simultaneous protest planned in in hundreds of communities. (AP Photo/Darryl Bush)

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Robbin Levine-Ritterman waves her marriage license at City Hall in New Haven, Conn. Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008 with her partner Barbara Levine-Rittermanin, background. The two were among the first gay couples to receive marriage licenses in Connecticut Wednesday after a New Haven judge cleared the way for gay marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

Mormons Gay Marriage

People gather before marching on the Mormon Temple in protest Friday, Nov. 7, 2008, in Salt Lake City. Leaders of the successful Proposition 8 campaign say an unusual coalition of evangelical Christians, Mormons and Roman Catholics built a majority at the polls Tuesday by harnessing the organizational muscle of churches to a mainstream message about what school children might be taught about gay relationships if the ban failed. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Gay Marriage Schools

Robb Wirthlin, right, and his wife Robin, who appear in a television advertisement in support of Proposition 8, hold a book called King & King as they talk about how they challenged gay marriage instruction in Massachusetts schools during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)

Gay Marriage Wedding Rush

From left, chef and co-owner Traci Des Jardins goes over a menu for a wedding reception with Chloe Harris and Frankie Frankeny at Jardiniere restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Gay couples from across California and the nation are feverishly planning to tie the knot before Election Day to avoid possible passage of a California ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

He's wedded to a cause: Opposing gay marriage

Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, with wife Sue in their Great Falls, Va., home. NOM, the preeminent organization dedicated to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage, is moving its national headquarters to Washington. Illustrates MARRIAGE-BROWN (category l), by Monica Hesse (c) 2009, The Washington Post. Moved Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Tracy A. Woodward )

Democrats sense opportunity on gay marriage

FILE - This April 28, 2009 file photo shows gay rights advocate Matthew Arnold-Lloyd of Albany, N.Y., right, meeting nose to nose with an unidentified man opposed to gay marriage during a rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public's growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party's hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage

Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override

Gay marriage effort shifts back to New England

Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire

Maine Gov. John Baldacci gestures after signing a gay rights marriage bill in his office at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

California high court upholds gay marriage ban

Peg Oliviera and Jen Vickrey, left, exchange rings as they were married by Appellate Judge Herbert Gruendel outside City Hall in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 soon after a Superior Court Judge ruled marriages between same-sex couple are legal. (AP Photo/Bob Child)

LDS church applauds Calif. decision on gay marriage

Shawn Higgins, hugs his boyfriend Robert Franco as police surround them during a street protest following a court ruling on gay marriage in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The California Supreme Court upheld a voter approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

LDS church applauds Calif. decision on gay marriage

Demonstrators placed signs on a statue of President Abe Lincoln in front of San Francisco City Hall after the California State Supreme Court ruled in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 26, 2009.The court upheld the ban on gay marriage voters approved when they voted in favor of Proposition 8 last fall. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

LDS church applauds Calif. decision on gay marriage

Frank Capley-Alfano is hugged by gay rights advocate Davina Kotulski after a ruling by the California state supreme court on gay marriage in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The California Supreme Court upheld a voter approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday. Capley-Alfano and Kotulski both are married to same-sex partners. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)