BELLEVUE, Wash. - Activists launched a campaign Monday to make Washington the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to marry - and received a quick endorsement from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee.

"For him, it's an equal rights issue," said Inslee spokeswoman Jaime Smith. "He feels really strongly that the government shouldn't have a role in preventing a committed couple from enjoying the kind of marriage he has with his wife."

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