That license to wed draws out-of-staters

Good weather, golden scenery and now gay marriage are drawing out-of-staters this summer to California. Gay and lesbian couples during the next week and months are coming from New York, Texas and Kansas, to name just a few states where lovebirds of the same gender are denied a marriage license. In most cases, the marriages will not be recognized or confer many, if any, new rights on these couples. Several of those making the trek want to make a political point back home. "We're proud to be from Kansas. It was a state founded on freedom and equality. We're just trying to carry on the tradition," said Mike Silverman, a software engineer from Lawrence, Kan. Voters in his state in 2005 added a ban on such unions to the