"WE'RE not going to be the first edge of social change," concedes Jim Gray, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky's second-biggest city. "But over time we adapt." He illustrates that; Mr Gray, a successful businessman, who has won plaudits for his leadership of a rare liberal outpost in Kentucky, is the state's first openly gay elected official. Yet a clanking new face-off in the culture wars, opened by California against Kentucky and another seven Republican states, suggests the smooth transition he describes is by no means assured.
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