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Source: Orlando Sentinel and Huffington Post TALLAHASSEE, Fla -- Florida residents will vote in November on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, state officials announced late Friday. The signature-petition drive launched three years ago by social-conservative groups managed to beat Friday's...

Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal For Beau McDaniels and many other gay and lesbian Floridians, the political battles about same-sex marriage are about people's rights. "It's not like we have a choice," said McDaniels, pastor of Hope Metropolitan Community Church in Daytona Beach....

Source: Southern Voice Now that the signatures of the necessary 611,009 Floridians have been secured to get a state constitutional amendment defining marriage there as between only one man and one woman on November’s ballot, activists on both sides of the ideological divide are gearing up for an expensive...

Source: News-Press TALLAHASSEE -- Supporters of a Florida petition drive to ban gay marriage announced this morning that they have enough signatures to make the November ballot. “Today, the people of Florida have spoken and they will speak again in November of 2008,” said Orlando attorney John Stemberger...

Source: The Ledger A constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages in Florida is closing in on a spot on the 2008 election ballot, triggering a political battle that could sway voters in a presidential year. Florida4Marriage, the group pushing the amendment, has garnered 597,000 signatures and needs...