The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Missouri vote sparks action by gay activistsBy Cheryl WetzsteinTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished August 5, 2004 This week's vote backing a traditional-marriage amendment in Missouri has galvanized homosexual rights groups, which already were gearing up to work "as hard as we can" to put Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry in the White House. The decision to ask Missouri voters to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman "was motivated by politics, pure and simple," said Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest homosexual rights advocacy group. "This was...