The Arizona Daily Star.

Arizona advocates of traditional marriage overreached. That's what a leading national figure behind the effort to define marriage as between a man and woman said in an interview with Notebook this week.

In November, Arizona became the first and only state in the nation to turn down a measure defining marriage.

Now Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, says he is counseling Arizona lawmakers to make sure they offer a more acceptable ballot measure next time around — one that doesn't ask voters to deny benefits to couples.