>Gay rights leader lets Ark. roots take the reins

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) — Chad Griffin could have spent his first official day heading the country's largest and most influential gay rights group anywhere: in Washington, where he cut his teeth working for President Bill Clinton, or California, where he spearheaded a legal challenge to the state's same-sex marriage ban. Instead, he came back to the Arkansas community where he spent his Sundays in a Baptist church and heard kids call him gay slurs in school, to show that he stands with young gay people in small towns across the country, not just on the coasts. "One's state's borders should not determine one's rights," said Griffin, the new president of the Human Rights Campaign. Arkansas...