Gay marriage fight comes to the South

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

NORFOLK, Va. -- The gay marriage fight arrived in a Southern courtroom Tuesday, as opponents of a Virginia law banning same-sex unions told a federal judge it was just like the Jim Crow-era prohibition against interracial marriage.

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