Campaign aims to defeat gay marriage amendment (Kansas)

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Calling it a "David versus Goliath" effort, a new group on Thursday announced its statewide campaign to defeat the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

"We're obviously a new organization that doesn't have a lot of time to get its feet under it," said Bradley Kemp, of Lawrence, a spokesman for Kansans for Fairness. "The opposition is pretty well-organized, well-funded, and has a lot of Kansans' ears. ... It looked like the amendment was just going to go sailing through without anyone making a concerted or sophisticated effort to campaign against it."

Kansans for Fairness formed Feb. 12, shortly after the Kansas House approved putting the amendment to a public vote. But it wasn't until Thursday that the organization announced it was coordinating and promoting the efforts of grassroots groups in cities across the state, including Salina, Manhattan and Wichita.

The group is producing a testimonial advertisement featuring the mother of a gay man that will run on the group's Web site -- http://www.kansansforfairness.org/ -- and possibly on television.

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