NEWS FLASH

70 Big City Mayors To Call For Marriage Equality | Some 70 big-city mayors — including one Republican, Jerry Sanders of San Diego — are “joining together to support same-sex marriage rights,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “By joining the group, mayors hope to expand public and political support for ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage,” the mayors’ group, which is organized by Freedom To Marry, said in a statement. The new coalition — Mayors for the Freedom to Marry — will speak out at a press conference on Friday.