Last week, George Mason University students massed to urge voters to shoot down a constitutional same-sex marriage ban on the November ballot in Virginia.

Ryan Gleason says he was taken by surprise. Hearing of the planned rally just a few days before, the 22-year-old economics major and campus coordinator for Students-4-Marriage scrambled to mobilize a protest against the protest.

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