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The Washington Times: Lawsuit gets boost to fight gay marriage ban in Virginia

David Sherfinski of The Washington Times covers Bostic v. Rainey:

The legal team that helped overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage joined a lawsuit Monday seeking to do the same in Virginia.

Ted Olson and David Boies will join a lawsuit filed in July seeking to overturn Virginia’s constitutional ban on gay marriage.

The lawyers, working with the American Foundation for Equal Rights, in a brief filed in federal court Monday invoked the end of the state’s ban on interracial marriage to make their case.

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