USA Today: “Gay-marriage lawsuits escalate”

USA Today: “Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage closer to the U.S. Supreme Court . . . Still, resolution of the cases now in lower U.S. courts and any Supreme Court determination on same-sex marriage is far from predictable. ‘I’m still optimistic about the Supreme Court,’ says Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which wants to preserve marriage for heterosexuals . . . ‘Many people do not understand that Proposition 8 is not just about California,’ Gallagher says. ‘This is a national case with national implications.’”