Group opposing Kentucky marriage amendment launches media campaign

A group opposed to a measure that would amend the Kentucky constitution to ban same-sex marriage has launched a media campaign in Louisville. The Fairness Campaign has sponsored a billboard off Interstate 65 and is mailing thousands of postcards as the November 2 election nears. The billboard, sponsored by the Fairness Education Fund, depicts the U.S. Constitution in the background and proclaims that gay and straight Kentuckians each "deserve equal protection under the law." The fund is an affiliate of the Fairness Campaign, which promotes gay rights in Jefferson County. The group's campaign comes amid a much larger media blitz promoted by Southeast Christian Church endorsing marriage as between "one man, one woman." Kentucky voters will decide November 2 on the proposed amendment, which would define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. It would ban same-sex marriage as well as civil unions and other legal arrangements resembling marriage.