Morning Sweep

The Buffalo News calls for tolerance and justice after two recent anti-gay hate crimes.

The New Jersey Senate defeated the state's marriage bill yesterday, 20-14. Same-sex marriage advocates have vowed to take the fight back to the state’s highest court, which in 2006 ordered lawmakers to give same-sex couples the same rights as others whether or not they called such unions marriages.

Here's a preview of the arguments on both sides of next week's Prop 8 trial.